The Department of Defense is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, one the great historical events ...

Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean ... inherent in these military stories. Women's history is just the latest casualty. Civil War Army nurse Caroline Burghardt and her ...

Women have a rich history in the U.S. military. They served as nurses dating back to World War I, but with some limited exceptions, women could not serve in other capacities until World War II.

While women had served in various unofficial or contracted capacities in the U.S. military for decades before ... in the Pacific Theater during World War II, as well as the Korean and Vietnam ...

got involved in World War II. Puerto Ricans joined the military, though many served in segregated Hispanic units. Puerto ...

When the free world was tearing at the seams, Betty O’Connell did her part to patch it up. In 1945, World War II raged across the Pacific, leaving countless wounded soldiers in dire need of treatment.

Image caption, Sister Evershed was one of two women who died during the Battle of Normandy Sister Evershed died alongside fellow nurse Sister Dorothy Field, from Ringwood in Hampshire, on 7 August ...

The U.S. military rejected ... other World War I U.S. nurses. This act, Davis believes, would be a fitting way to honor these pioneering and largely unappreciated women veterans on the centennial ...

The U.S. military rejected ... other World War I U.S. nurses. This act, Davis believes, would be a fitting way to honor these pioneering and largely unappreciated women veterans on the centennial ...