The women were sent to Europe to clear a backlog of 17 million pieces of mail waiting to be sent to U.S. troops.

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

The only Black, all-female unit serving in Europe during World War II received the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday at the ...

The only all-Black female unit to serve overseas in World War II was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday – 80 years after they were deployed to Europe to revolutionize the growing mail crisis ...

During the NOAA team’s ongoing Beyond the Blue: Illuminating the Pacific expedition aboard the Okeanos Explorer, researchers ...

Soldiers from the 322nd Civil Affairs Brigade’s functional specialty team, part of the crisis response team for Exercise ...

Four months later, with this massive military assistance from the U.S., the Soviet Union landed on the Kuril Islands, ...

During 1941-45, the Flying Tigers killed more than 66,700 Japanese soldiers, shot down more than 3,000 enemy planes, ...

Researchers from NOAA discovered a 1940 Ford Super Deluxe inside the wreck of the USS Yorktown, a World War II aircraft ...

Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration has released new images from a dive inside the USS Yorktown, the legendary US Navy aircraft carrier ...

The most surprising find was the first-ever discovery of underwater aircraft that had flown on the Midway battlefield, NOAA ...