II, and were the only ones allowed to take on a combatant role by the British Army. However, many of them have been forgotten ...

"The National Service (Armed Forces) Act imposed conscription on all males aged between 18 and 41 who had to register for service. Those medically unfit were exempted, as were others in key industries ...

By the close of 1941, women and 'all childless widows' aged 20 to 30 were conscripted, alongside men up to 51 for military ...

It not only remained on the books but continued to expand in scope: Congress amended it in 1918 to include women ... German and Italian nationals as "alien enemies" during World War II.

Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering ... of the Soviet war against Nazi Germany and for straying from the ...

For a time, the men who helped run Hitler’s war machine lived like kings, tucked away in the snowy mountains of West Virginia. They woke to the scent of fresh linens and the sound of birdsong. They ...

National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force will host Peggy Scholberg to discuss her book on her mother's wartime ...

And women had secured their place in history and proved their value in the workplace. The classic image of “Rosie the Riveter ...

An emotional event with extraordinary WW2 veteran and women’s pioneer Sheila Pantin ... Sheila was also one of the first British service women to enter a German concentration camp in April 1945. Once ...

She was a little girl. Her world was turned upside down. But she maintained her determination and hopefulness,” said friend and author Kristen Arute ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...