I am lost in admiration when I think about Willa Walker. At the age of 28, her husband in a German prison camp, having just lost her baby son to...
After a bullet from a Japanese machine gun tore through her body, Australian nurse Vivian Bullwinkel floated face down in the sea and feigned...
WARTIME WEDNESDAYS -- Visit my blog to see some wonderful old photos of Royal Canadian Air Force women performing their duties. this woman is...
When this Manitoba farm girl joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, she proved to be such a whiz at Morse code that she was assigned to instruct the...
The Canadian Army's first woman photographer, a female MP who lobbied for better pay for servicewomen, and the first aboriginal woman to join the...
Violet Milstead was one of the elite few Canadian women who served as a ferry pilot in wartime, flying 47 different types of aircraft. Read her...
Historically, due to Western views, the woman soldiers, sailors, and pilots of the USSR and other countries remain invisible while American and...
Eugenie Francoeur served at a bomber base in Britain, where she witnessed horrific crashes, dodged bombs, and worked around the clock on D-Day. It...
Wartime Wednesdays today features an inspirational interview with Jessie Middleton of Abbotsford, British Columbia, now aged 98. She nursed our...
I have attached a photo of my sister-in-law's grandmother wearing some sort of a uniformed cape. The date is unknown but it is thought to be from...
Now 96 years old, Georgina Harvey was a young woman from a well-known family in Kelowna, British Columbia, when she joined the Royal Canadian Air...
Happy Valentine's Day, wartime lovers... And enjoy these stories from my inbox. Click on the link below to read Wartime Wednesdays.
Young Russian women flew daring night missions over the German trenches in World War Two. They would cut their engines and glide in low, creating...
THROUGH THE LENS -- Not everyone went to war, but for this farm girl from Alberta, joining the RCAF and becoming a photographer was the biggest...
BOMB GIRLS -- Millions of women all over the world including Germany and Japan made the weapons used in World War Two. Click the Wartime...
While the boys were away, thousands of Canadian girls as young as sixteen were training themselves, at their own expense, to defend our native...
Which branch of the Canadian women's armed forces had the most flattering hat - air force, army, navy or nurse? You be the judge. Click on the...
I don't know about "the Hottest" women soliders in uniform but they are attractive. My favorite: [IMG] Which one is your favorite @...
Hello, everyone. I am a history graduate student working on my thesis... I am looking for primary sources showing a negative reaction to WWII-era...
Keeping up with the output from the aircraft factories, these Women are seen mass producing rescue dinghies for the Marines in the Pacific...