Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front ...

The Gary Sinise Foundation is inviting women who served on the home front during World War II to apply for a special trip to the National WWII Museum this spring.

Our War Too: Women in Service is a groundbreaking special exhibit that honors almost 350,000 American women who served their country during World War II. On display at the California Museum in ...

Many of you know the story of World War II and the sacrifice of millions of men who went overseas to keep us safe, but few know the significant role millions of women played during the war efforts.

The trip from Tolland to Bern Township isn’t a particularly short one. The route from the Connecticut town stretches about 260 miles, down the eastern seaboard to Newark and then west through ...

In researching her new book, 'Women of War,' author Suzanne Cope found a whole new side of her grandmother — and her own history Kurt Arnold; Dutton Sitting in a quiet library researching for my book, ...

Editor's note: This essay is excerpted from the book "Black Women in WWII: Greatness Under Fire." Segregation, which was the prevailing policy of the military and much of America in 1941, ...

The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops. By Karoun Demirjian Reporting from Washington The only all-Black, all-female Army ...

After her mother’s death in 1999, journalist Emily Yellin came across the wartime diary and hundreds of letters her mother had written home from the Pacific while working with the Red Cross. Within ...

A man with dwarfism and a woman work together on the interior of an aircraft fuselage. The man, wearing a plaid shirt and trousers, is inside the circular frame, smiling as he works on the aircraft.

A World War II series has been garnering rave reviews from fans, with some even dubbing it a "masterpiece." The show, available to Netflix subscribers, narrates the tales of five friends during the ...