Wake became the most decorated woman working with the Allies in WW2. Nancy Wake passed away on August 7, 2011, just before her 99th birthday. Ruby Bradley In 1934, Colonel Bradley joined the Army Nurse Corps as a surgical nurse. At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she ...
Women’s Role in Wwi: Before and After The outbreak of WWI saw a number of unexpected changes take place within the common social strata. These changes were prompted by the fact that a new wave of social-thinking was taking shape and eventually affected the manner by which the society refle...
it's because this series already told the story and Adrienne Warren already played the role to perfection half a year before the film came out. Newcomer Cedric Joe was sweetly excellent as young Emmett, and Glynn Turman (also very good in the latest season of FX's "Fargo" series) gave ...
07, is after a Nazi treasure hidden somewhere in the Mediterranean waters before the end of WW2. The key to the secret location is hidden in a Goya painting. Mark attends an art auction just in time to see the ...See more Read more: Plot summary Director Vincenzo Cascino (as ...
before becoming an officer, and was known to be an authority on dogs. Before being selected to head the WAAF she had been commanding a RAF Company of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Beneath her peaked cap with her badge and double row of gold braid, a cheerful smile, clearly ...
Though some women’s rights groups existed before in the U.S., the genesis of the suffrage movement is usually cited as the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848. The movement for suffrage truly took hold after the Civil War, when women’s rights leaders began to push for the incl...
Do you know if working-class women from the UK worked in Hong Kong before WWII or during the war? I have conducted some preliminary research which says that British women did work as nannies and cooks at mainly ex pat homes in Hong Kong. I do know that more educated women were employed...
Virginia had her first mental breakdown.And,when their older half-sister Stella Duckworth, who in the absence of their mother had stepped in to run the household, also died two years later, and after their father died in 1904 after a long battle with stomach cancer, Virginia made her first...
At the time, many believed a woman to be too fragile for a long-distance flight to which Doran replied, “A woman should fly just as easily as a man … Women certainly have the courage and tenacity required for long flights.” Before she left with the flight crew, many tried to convin...
After the War We’re continuing our series looking back at the life of Eileen Horner Blakely, who died December 30th at the age of 96. Eileen was one of the women who took advantage of the GI Bill, which had passed in 1944 before her first tour of service ended. It had always ...