She was a female pioneer of aviation who was flying in and winning air races throughout the 1930s. The post ‘Forgotten’ WWII ...

The Night Witches, WWII's all-female Soviet pilots, flew over 30,000 daring night missions in outdated biplanes, gliding silently to bomb German forces. Nicknamed for the eerie sound of their ...

One of the last surviving "Spitfire Women", who ferried aircraft ... remembered Farm owners 'supported Nazis in WW2' In 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane explores the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and their fight for recognition for their contributions to World War II. Dorothy Cochrane ...

Freydis Sharland, nee Leaf, was among the first women to earn RAF pilot wings A blue ... was created at the start of WW2 to ferry new, damaged and repaired aircraft without radios or instrument ...

It took the skills, stamina and ambition of two very different women -- one from an impoverished ... fall of Warsaw in the early weeks of World War II. She wrote a letter to First Lady Eleanor ...

One of the last living female World War Two pilots, Mary Ellis, has died aged 101 at her home on the Isle of Wight. Mrs Ellis was a member of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) and delivered ...

More than thirty years after the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, the women pilots of World War II were shocked by a series of headlines in the paper. The U.S. Air Force announced that women ...

"Highest is safest" was May Bradford's motto in life. Shattering glass ceilings in the air and on the ground, this war widow and aviation pioneer lived a giant life. She hit the skies in the era ...