Did a U.S. female fighter pilot recently score her first air-to-air kill? Explore the story behind this potential milestone in aviation history and its impact on the role of women in combat aviation.

For Women’s History Month, The National Interest is commencing a multi-part series honoring some of history’s most badass ...

Air Force Times identified at least a dozen pages on the WWII-era Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot ...

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 ...

blue-eyed beauty as for the 12 victories as a member of a crack fighter unit.” Sadly, she didn’t live to see the end of the war; she presumably was killed in action on August 1, 1943—a ...

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 ...