Flying during Women's History Month, the flag is a particularly poignant choice for the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile ...

Women in the military have been removed from the Department of Defense and Arlington Memorial Cemetery's websites: why this ...

They served as nurses dating back to World War I, but with some limited exceptions, women could not serve in other capacities ...

The life of Carmen Vazquez Rivera – a World War II and Korean War veteran who died recently at 103 – could be the makings of ...

(That prohibition lasted until 1955.) Second, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was dragging its feet on accepting Black women. Technically, Black women could join the ANC at the end of World War I ...

The month of March is set aside to highlight the contributions that women have made to history. Women have a long history of ...

WAVES recruitment figures proved those suppositions wrong. In 1945, the WAVES had 73,816 enlisted women, 8,745 officers and ...

She noted that before women were fully integrated into military service, their roles were primarily in positions supporting the fighting soldiers: as mothers who raised families and kept households ...

“Today, it would be nothing without [women like Wolff].” According to Steyer, Wolff served as a Union Army nurse in military ...