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more about #wwii more comments → Highsmith: Mon dieu! Here's another most amazing woman you've never heard of [www.amazon.com] more » superjoop: I was in the Peace Corps with an older Polish man who was a real character - an amazing musician who had attended the Viennese conservatory and kind o... more » kapoosta: I wish I knew more stories like this. My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. Growing up, I only thought of them as heroes. They had no choice but to... more » Wibbles: Women like this women is why when my Holocaust Denier Co-Worker says that only 1,000 Jews (and only Jews) or less visited the Camps. Do the words Nach... more » NefariousNewt: Not everyone who fought for liberation in WWII wore fatigues or carried a rifle. She deserves our respect, admiration, and the thanks of a grateful na... more » curiousgeorgiana: What a great story. My great-aunt and uncle were in Poland during the Nazi invasion and managed to help around 20 Jews escape before they were capture... more » picardia: Another book interested people might check out is FLYGIRL by Sherri Smith. A novel about a black woman in segregated Louisiana who makes the huge deci... more » Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): I would not use Amelia Earhart in "Night at the Museum 2" as a compliment. I saw the move Sunday and I cringed every single moment of it. The perkines... more » Majrhoulihan: Oddly enough, I think you have to be taller than 5'1 now in order to be a military pilot (I think it's 5'4?). more » bowleserised: I've raved about a book called Spitfire Women, which tells the story of many of these women, and others, before. Diana Barnato Walker, for one. [www.t... more » Flackette Goes Retro: If anyone wants to know more about women in WW II (in the services and at home) I recommend "Our Mothers' War" by Emily Yellin. She talks about all gr... more » NefariousNewt: I heard about this over the weekend, and all I can say is: long overdue. W.A.S.P.s were indispensable in freeing up male pilots for front-line combat ... more » Ratinski: Whenever someone is referred to as being WASPy, I wish this is what was meant by it. These women were and continue to be incredible. more » sympathyforthebasementcat: Fly like a butterfly, sting like a WASP. more » CurtCole: Finally, a legitimate reason to not hate Kay Bailey Hutchison. Thanks, Jeze. more » -
#halloffame
Profile In Courage
Susan Travers may be the most amazing woman you've never heard of: an English socialite who became a Free French ambulance driver, she earned the Legion d'Honneur and become the only woman in the French Foreign Legion. [BBC] -
#thegreatestgeneration
Sweet Virginia
Virginia D'Albert Lake, who died in 1997, is a true D-Day hero: l'Americaine stayed on in France through the occupation, joined the resistance and helped to rescue more than 60 Allied airmen before her deportation to a concentration camp. [NPR] -
#greatestgeneration
Fly Girls: Female Flyers Qualify For Honors, Awesomeness, Immortality
With time running out, Women Airforce Service Pilots, ace pilots and swell dames, may finally get their due. More » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
"I Do Have To Watch Out For My Complexion, Though"
"Dick enlisted two months before Pearl Harbor - I wanted to be doing something necessary, too, so I found my job helping to build planes." [Vintage Ads] -
#leftovers
Sexist Beer Ad Gets The Boot • "To Kill a Mockingbird" Named Most Inspirational Book
• The advertising overlords have ruled that this ad for Courage beer suggesting that a man needs a drink to gather the "Dutch courage" to tell a woman her ass looks fat, is unacceptable. • More » -
#readingrainbow
Despite Rough Childhood, Very Hungry Author Is Now Very Happy
In honor of the 40th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Newsweek has a sweet piece on author Eric Carle and the inspiration behind his whimsical works. More » -
#liveswelllived
Vogue Model/Photographer/Muse Suspected Of Spying In Wartime
Lee Miller — Surrealist muse, WWII photojournalist, Vogue staffer, gourmet cook — is pretty much the archetypal model-slash. But it was Miller's rumored communism that led the MI5 to spy on her for 20 years. More » -
