Women workers at the Commonwealth Aircraft Factory during World War II (source: Australian War Memorial, ref. 045372) Wartime also saw a large number of women employed at Fishermans Bend by the ...

Over 1 million were engaged in war work across ... and health in World War One Kate Adie explains how women staffed the medical services and broke down social attitudes during WW1.

Exactly 73 years after World War II and Korean War Veteran Lt. Col. George Davis Jr. was shot down and killed, Texas asked ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail in three months — about half the time one general predicted. Their story ...

Excuse me, but there’s something wrong here,’ she said. ‘I’m standing and you’re sitting.’ When the men looked up, my mother ...

Workers from Meals on Wheels and crew members ... veteran Elsie “Kitty” Rippin speaks about her service during World War II after being presented with a cake and a gift for her 101st birthday ...

Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail in three months — about half the time one general predicted. Their story ...

Workers dismantling a collapsed bridge in the eastern German city of Dresden have stumbled upon an unexploded World War II-era bomb ... a 250-kilogram bomb was found during excavation work ...