Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center, where she was responsible for ...

When the Second World War broke out in 1939 just over five million women were in work ... between designers and the High Street. WW2: How did the British plan to celebrate VE Day?

The statues have been created by Standing with Giants – the team behind the D-Day display at the British Normandy Memorial, which was unveiled last year. By 1943, 90% of single women of working ...

Army Gen. George C. Marshall had personally directed the Army to handpick several dozen women for a classified assignment: evaluating whether women could be successfully integrated into D.C.’s ...

I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America After discovering that Private Ames is a woman, Dr. Foster demands, “Why did you join the army?” Ames responds: “I wanted to ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only unit comprised entirely of Black women to have been deployed overseas during World War II ... speak with retired Army Colonel Edna ...

It marked a turning point when Britain stood alone against Hitler's seemingly unstoppable military power ... dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the ...

American military policy was to uphold segregation and forbid the marriages of black Americans and white British women - but as Elizabeth Berwick was black, "that made the marriage more acceptable".