The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...
In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.
Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to ...
After the military was desegregated in 1948, Leftenant-Colon initially joined the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, as a nurse.
There is the old saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Coming up on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War Apple TV+ is releasing a ...
Her armed forces career saw her deployed as a doctor, parachutist and helicopter pilot. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.
Paris: Valerie Andre, the first French woman to be promoted to the rank of general in an armed forces career that saw her ...
There is the old saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Coming up on the 50th anniversary of ...
In music, Văn Cao is as noble as a king. In the field of song composition, I am like a child dreaming that the sun is a paper ...
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended ...