Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era ...

Aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane explores the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and their fight for recognition for their contributions to World War II. Dorothy Cochrane ...

More than thirty years after the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, the women pilots of World War II were shocked by a series of headlines in the paper. The U.S. Air Force announced that women ...

The WASP occupied the entire spectrum of aviation-related jobs on over 120 bases around the United States, according to the National WASP World War II Museum. Their training mirrored that of the male ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as ...

These women were the first female pilots to operate U.S. military aircraft and overcame many adversities in the ...

In February 1943, the plane was based in Sweetwater, Texas until the end of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. These were the women who served our country during World War II as ...

Discover the history and importance of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots during a free lecture at 6:30 p.m. March 31, at ...

Known as WASP, these women earned their wings by taking to the skies for non-combat military missions in World War II.