During the war, nearly 1,100 highly trained women tested, flew, and ferried 12,650 aircraft over 60 million miles as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German and Nazi party member, has come to personify those heroic individuals who risked their lives to rescue Jews and others from the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.
Prior to World War II, there was a thriving American wristwatch industry, but it became a casualty of the war.
The National WWII Museum’s newest special exhibit, Our War Too: Women in Service, examines the dire nursing shortage driven by the war.
The National WWII Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy is proud to present its next scholarly symposium in honor of Women’s History Month.
Join us as we host a film screening of Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Gregory Cooke