Eighty years after the war ended, a coalition of retired military nurses and others is campaigning to award one of the nation’s highest civilian honors.

Gertrude Leblanc is humble, good gracious. I didn't know all this was going to be happening. And the Manassas woman will tell you that today is overwhelming as she's in the spotlight, family, friends, ...

Eunice Littley, of Galloway Township, became an Army nurse during World War II, right after graduating as a registered nurse. She remembers training in Texas and meeting her husband, John "Jack" ...

Pia Marie Winters Jordan is a journalist and teacher of journalism whose mother was one of the African-American nurses who served at the Tuskegee Army Air Field during World War II. The pilots who ...

When Army nurse Mildred Bianchi landed on the tiny island of Pantelleria in June 1943, conditions in its tent hospital were primitive at best. There was no running water or electricity in the hospital ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) – A Black woman who served as a nurse during World War II just celebrated her 100th birthday. Dr. Bennie Fleming, from Rhode Island, turned 100 years old Sunday. While ...