This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out ...

The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland. First Lieutenant Vivian Elzie Taylor and her sister Marian Elzie Wilson were among ...

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 ...

"They never got a salute," a daughter of one of the women said. The only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve in World War II in the U.S. and in Europe is set to be awarded the Congressional Gold ...

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.

When Anna Mae Robertson joined the Army at 19, she didn’t know she would be part of history. She and her brother — both orphaned young — decided to enlist together in 1943. Her brother, Zeredee ...

During World War II, women of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) took on critical roles far from the front lines. In Arizona, many worked as airplane mechanics, maintaining and repairing military aircraft ...

(Tribune News Service) — Thousands of books and films have been made over the past 80 years celebrating the bravery of American servicemen during World War II. But what about the 25 American women ...

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 ...

Helena and Barbara Perendyk spent three years in separate forced labor camps after Nazis invaded their native Poland Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

When Antony Penrose discovered a box of journals, love letters and thousands upon thousands of photographs taken during World War II hidden in his mother’s attic, he saw a woman he did not recognize.

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 ...