Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Private organizations like the Salvation Army and the American Red Cross stepped up to provide ... with the United States on the brink of entering World War II, President Franklin D.

Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, has died. The World War II veteran was 100 ...

Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American ... Cross. In 1996, he learned that his wartime record was being reevaluated, and on Jan. 13, 1997, he was among seven Black Americans to have their ...

Harry Stewart Jr., a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers ... Stewart earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for downing three German aircraft during a dogfight on April 1 ...

Alice Miller, 104, was presented with the Northcoast Veteran’s Museum display of her World War II U.S. Navy nurse ... was a hospital and showed the red cross, it was not supposed to be targeted.