From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...

In 1945, while recovering from an ankle injury he got while skiing in Bavaria, Doctor Maertens discovered that a new use for ...

Thereasea Clark Elder broke barriers for Black public health nurses in Charlotte as the city’s first for the life-saving profession. Born in 1927, the Charlotte native grew up in the Greenville ...

The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

The arctic blast postponed an Iwo Jima 80th anniversary event at Circle Cinema co-organized by Tulsa WWII collector Keith Myers.

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

The Winged Angels exhibit at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honors WWII flight nurses who evacuated wounded soldiers from Normandy after D-Day. C-47 aircraft transported supplies to the ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over the Germans. To ensure the ground effort got to Berlin, the air war had to ...

Here are stories from Louisiana First News' "Honoring Black History" special highlighting Black business, culture and history.

The vaccine maker wasn’t immediately known. There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that killed a nurse employed at Kampala’s main referral hospital. The man died on ...

The period of World War II is a heavily explored historical time in film, often depicted with powerful visuals, gritty action sequences, and poignant tales of survival. The relatively clear ...