NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- Although Waukegan native Janice C. Christensen flew military aircraft during World War II, she was not recognized as a member of the military until Friday. At her grave ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — The Sweetwater WASP Museum is holding its annual homecoming to honor the female pilots that flew in World War II. The WASP (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots) were a group of ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Marilyn Mong of Leetonia holds a photograph of four Women Airforce Service Pilots before a lecture she gave Saturday in the old St. James Episcopal Church in Boardman ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — The National Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) WWII Museum, located in Sweetwater, commemorates the trailblazing women who broke barriers in a male-dominated field. Lisa Taylor, ...

When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...

WASP pilot Gertrude Tomkins Silver crashed off Calif. coast in 1944. Oct. 8, 2009 — -- The fog rolled in from Santa Monica Bay just after noon on Oct. 26, 1944, just three hours before Gertrude ...

At 86, Sylvia Clayton has seen enough to know that history has a way of repeating itself. On Monday, she became living proof. The silver-haired grandmother from Oro Valley cruised above the city in a ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Looking back in history to World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots were superheroes of aviation. They were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft, and most ...

"These pilots ferried aircraft, flew targets for ground artillery practice, tested airplanes and equipment, and many of them flew in combat. Topics covered include the training of female pilots, how ...

Many believe women in World War II were limited to nursing, but the reality is far more complex. From pilots and spies to ...