Meet Lt. j.g. Madeline Grace Swegle, the U.S. Navy's first Black female Tactical Air pilot, "winged" in mid-2020 by the Chief of Naval Air Training. A Virginia native, Swegle made history by breaking ...

"The Six Triple Eight" recently debuted on Netflix and tells the story of the first predominantly Black and female army battalion that served overseas during World War II. The film stars Kerry ...

When some enlightened military leaders agreed and approved the creation of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), about 25,000 American women applied to be an auxiliary part of the home-front army.

You realize shortly after that Abram is the pilot from the opening sequence ... Campbell inspect the first contingent of Black members of the Women’s Army Corps – the 6888 Central Postal ...

"Because there were, and are, so many disbelievers in women pilots, especially in their place in the Army, all of us realized what a spot we were [in]," Fort said. "We had to deliver the goods or ...

She wrote a letter to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt arguing that, in the eventuality of American involvement in the war, women pilots could fly military aircraft on support missions, releasing men ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) --Director Tyler Perry said his latest film, The Six Triple Eight, premiering Friday on Netflix, showcases a Black female World War II army unit that even the soldiers ...