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

They served as nurses dating back to World War I, but with some limited exceptions, women could not serve in other capacities ...

Jackie Moggridge's achievements were numerous - she was the first woman in South Africa to do a parachute jump, she flew more ...

On just her second sortie in April 1942, she proved her worth, downing a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber and a Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter, thus becoming the first female pilot to shoot down an ...

Women in the military have been removed from the Department of Defense and Arlington Memorial Cemetery's websites: why this ...

One such landmark was set last year when Indian Air Force, for the first time, inducted female fighter pilots. Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh scripted history by becoming the ...

Multiple webpages and media relating to retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, are no longer online amid the Trump administration's purge of diversity ...

Flying Officer Tanushka Singh has created history by becoming the first woman pilot to be permanently assigned to the Indian ...

In a first, Flying Officer Tanuska Singh has become the first woman pilot permanently assigned to IAF’s Jaguar fighter jet squadron. It marks a significant step in gender inclusion in combat roles.

In 2023, Avani reached another remarkable milestone by becoming India's first female pilot to fly the Sukhoi fighter jet. Serving as squadron leader, she participated in a 16-day mega air combat ...