"She fought Hitler by day and jitterbugged at night, working to win a war and prove women's worth along the way," is how The Philadelphia Inquirer summarized Krier's WWII role. Another embodiment ...

There were 7,500 soldiers named Robert Smith in the European Theater of Operations, according to the Museum of Black WWII History Web site, and the women had to keep them straight. Because all ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...

Meet the WWII Battalion of Black Women That Inspired an Army Base’s New Name The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only unit comprised entirely of Black women to have been ...

Quiet Heroism in WWII panel at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on Feb. 12, 2025. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) In addition to their duties, the women of the battalion found ways to ...

Clarice Lafreniere of Independence, who is 102, received the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal along with dozens of other women who at the time served as riveters, buckers, welders and ...

The work of these women is very satisfying and now on par with male welders," he said. Langkawi District Officer Mohamad Subhi Abdullah congratulated KN Aluminium & Engineering Sdn Bhd and ...

PEGASUS BRIDGE, France -- When the 5,000th B-17 bomber built after Pearl Harbor rolled out of its Boeing factory, teenage riveter Anna Mae Krier made sure it would carry a message from the women ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman known as one of the first women to serve in the Navy during World War II has died. Hellen Guthrie passed away Monday, March 3 at the age of 107. Born in ...