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Could Women Only Be Nurses in WWII?

Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to factory workers and frontline resistance fighters, women played critical roles ...
Lt. Angelo Belloni seized control of submarine F-43 at the Muggiano shipyards near La Spezia, Italy. The coastal submarine, ...
Greek women in WWII—from resistance fighters to agents of social change who shaped womanhood into what it is today.
A renowned Loveland sculptor and a woman who grew up here but now lives in France are working together to honor Joséphine ...
An ordinary woman in suburban Maryland unearths the horrifying secret of her family’s impact on the events of WWII in this page-turning debut memoir. Kuehn recalls receiving an inquiry in 1994 from a ...
Mountaineers discovered WWII-era parachute material on a glacier in Austria believed to be from a US-led spy mission called Operation Greenup, experts said. Screengrab from Ötztaler Museen’s Facebook ...
In 1945, three men — two Jewish refugees living in Brooklyn and one Nazi deserter — enlisted in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States.