Initially based an an all-women ferry pool in Hamble, the 19-year-old was the 15th woman to join the ATA, and the youngest. "She flew 1,438 planes during the war," said Ms Adkins. "In her lifetime ...

Responsible for daring assignments like Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was given a mission to ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

Between 1940 and 1945, women in the work force went from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent. They were dubbed Rosie the Riveter, celebrated with an iconic poster, a Norman Rockwell painting, even a ...

Maryland native shares story of mother's role in Six Triple Eight battalion 05:47. The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction 03:27. During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi ...

It's an intense patriotism that fuels these women's will to fight. Female Syrian Peshmerga fighters are being trained to fight against Daesh and Assad forces at a camp located in Old Mosul region ...