“We are all in it—all the way,” President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans during a radio broadcast two days after the United States entered the war. “Every single man, woman and child is a partner ...

more than 300 aircraft were destroyed or damaged; nearly 2,500 Americans were dead and more than 1,000 were wounded. On December 8, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.

Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender ...