Walking the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, imagining the unlived lives of the D-Day dead.

While Rosie the Riveter manned the wartime industries, the Annie Oakleys patrolled prisons as the first female guards.

During World War II, millions of Eastern Europeans were involuntarily deported to serve as forced laborers in Germany.

Despite early challenges to women’s place in the Navy, the WAVES’s establishment as a part of the Navy itself, not a corps or auxiliary like the WAACs, was “precedent-breaking.”

Startling new undersea images from R/V Petrel reveal a F4F Wildcat from the USS Lexington.