Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction 03:27. During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi ...

Military women in World War II were there to serve. Elna Hilliard joined the WAAC one month after it was established. Her first assignment was to oversee Battery X’s training, and she got to see ...

But behind the scenes were hundreds of thousands of military women who worked in crucial non-combat roles such as codebreakers, cartographers, ship plotters and radar operators.

Women's Army Corps Cpl. Alyce Dixon, right, talks with her superior officer while serving with the 6888th Postal Battalion. The battalion was the first all-female, all-black battalion in World War II.

Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kerry Washington about their film based on World War II's only Women's Army Corps unit of color. In recent years, we've seen more and more ...

Edina woman who served in Women's Army Corps recalls experience in WWII 02:01. EDINA, Minn. — In remembering 80 years since D-Day, it's important not to forget the contribution women made during ...

Kerry Washington Leads Women’s Army Corps Unit of Color in Tyler Perry’s ‘The Six Triple Eight’ WWII Film Teaser. The biopic on the first and only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to ...

The idea of using Army women to guard the nation’s coasts was born of necessity. Marshall, the American commander responsible for allocating Army resources during World War II, faced an acute ...