Women Heroes of WWII

Diet Eman (courtesy of Diet Eman) At Vught (a Dutch concentration camp), Diet was given a job cleaning bloody civilian clothing. As s...

Hazel at the Portland Flying Club, 1932. Museum of Chinese in America (MOAC) When Japan invaded Manchuria, the large northern pro...

Hazel is pictured on the left The WASPs often faced serious hazards. One of the most perilous tasks for any stateside flier was ferryi...

One day Anna was ordered to fly to the first Cavalry Corps--they needed a radio. But when she landed in the designated village, she didn...

Melitta at an airfield, 1934. Courtesy of Gerhard Bracke from his book,  Melitta Grafin Stauffenberg: Das Leben Einer Fligerin On ...

Hannah and her brother, the day before she left to train with the British in Cairo.  On the night of May 13, 1944, a plane took off ca...

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Munich Train Station, July 23, 1942 "On February 22, 1943, a German university s...