In recognition of Veterans Day, the Verona Public Library will host a special historical program on Sunday, November 2 at ...

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- Although Waukegan native Janice C. Christensen flew military aircraft during World War II, she was not recognized as a member of the military until Friday. At her grave ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — The Sweetwater WASP Museum is holding its annual homecoming to honor the female pilots that flew in World War II. The WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots) were a group of ...

WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...

When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...

A R L I N G T O N, Va., June 21 -- June marks the observance of the 227th anniversary of the U.S. Army. And this year's commemoration brings long-overdue recognition for a special group of Army ...

The National Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) WWII Museum, located in Sweetwater, commemorates the trailblazing women who broke barriers in a male-dominated field. RELATED | Sweetwater WASP Museum ...

”Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II,” By Becky Aikman. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 368 pages. $31.99. Since President Donald Trump nominated a former “Fox & ...

At 86, Sylvia Clayton has seen enough to know that history has a way of repeating itself. On Monday, she became living proof. The silver-haired grandmother from Oro Valley cruised above the city in a ...

It will never cease to amaze me how many tales are still to be told of the sacrifices heroic men and women made to defeat the Nazis in World War II. Here we are, 80 years from the end of this ...