Agnes Lowe may have turned 100 but she’s still got work to do.  She’s advocating for long-overdue recognition. Lowe is ...

Mary Hawkins spent 13 months flying the wounded out of the Pacific Theater, becoming one of the few women to be awarded the ...

This video highlights the incredible bravery of military nurses 1LT Marian Charlotte Jones and 1LT Edna Nina Statman, who ...

NEW YORK — They were young Army nurses in World War II, sharing a room and experiences that forged an extraordinary bond. A monsoon destroyed part of their hospital on a South Pacific island. They ...

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 ...

Terry Jacoby is likely one of the few remaining women out of 120,000 from the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps who answered the call when her country needed her most. From 1943-1945, Terry trained with the U.S.

Although embarking on a 28-day voyage to see glaciers and volcanoes at 106 years old is a remarkable feat on its own, Alice Beck Darrow’s journey to Honolulu aboard Holland America Line’s Westerdam ...

When Kathryn “Kay” McQuade told her family she had registered to work as a nurse during World War II, her mother was heartbroken. Name: Allen Fuchs U.S. Navy ...

Unmounted prints showing nurses' ward at the military hospital camp at Biak Island. The Secretary of War contacted George Heuer regarding resurrecting the Ninth General Hospital in October 1940. The ...

SUNLAND, Calif.—When Paul Ludden visits his mother in the nursing home, he sits on her bed and sings with her. Dorothy, 94 years old, remembers words to 1940s ditties. But she struggles to find ...