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

As the U.S. war machine churned to life during World War II ... Just as the Tuskegee nurses dispensed their duties with honor and distinction in uniform, many went on to fill medical leadership ...

Simple History Uniform of the American G.I. on D-Day Posted: March 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 21, 2025 From the outbreak of the Second World War, the US Armed forces started to actively ...

Thomas Hitchcock in uniform, 1918. (Library of Congress) Upon America’s entry into the Second World War, the 41-year-old volunteered his services as a fighter pilot but was turned down ...

While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat Annie” and sailed down the Rhine, in honor of the ...

Civil War nurse and Fort wayne native Helena Wolff Many speakers dressed in soldiers’ uniforms. Fort Wayne 5th District City Councilman Geoff Paddock reading the proclamation. The ceremony was held ...

While working as a nurse in Sydney during World War II, she met a handsome American Marine named ... “She said he was walking ...

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

This article is part two of a three-part series from the archives of the Otter Tail County Historical Society, showcasing how ...

Originally from Manchester, Josie trained as a nurse at Preston Royal Infirmary and remembers when the NHS was first introduced back in 1948. During the Second World War, she recalls a "chilling" ...