A patent was issued for the logo in 1911, over the years it has taken on many variations and Harley has also used many other designs. But the Bar & Shield, in orange, black and white remains ...

the first Black unit to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II. Black Americans were enlisted into the Marines at the direction of a 1942 executive order from President Franklin D.

“Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight ... also has a section devoted to the Tuskegee Airmen who fought in World War II. “Black Wings” opens on Tuesday, Feb. 4, and will run through ...

Two key chapters of the Black American experience in World War II have enjoyed recent moments in the popular culture spotlight. The Tuskegee Airmen’s support role in the Allied European bombing ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II ...

Before World War II, African Americans were relegated to noncombat role. The all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, based at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, shattered that barrier. The unit had as ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of over 15,000 Black pilots, mechanics, and cooks who served in the segregated Army during World War II. The Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) were a ...