‘Spitfires’ tells the story of 25 American women pilots who also risked their lives serving in the Royal Air Force’s Air Transport Auxiliary.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Flowers from locals decorate concertina wire at a traffic control point in Urosecac, a province in Kosovo.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Ground crew check the engine of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-74 Globemaster bound for the United States at Rhein-Main Air Force Base, Aug. 11, 1949.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Makiko (left) and Kuniko Clark play in the pool of the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, Japan as other guests sunbathe on the stretchers surrounding the pool, Sept. 9, 1984.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: Army veteran Ray Watkins was unemployed for eight months after leaving the military, despite an aggressive approach to finding a new job.

U.S. Army Pvt. Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, a private in the United States Army Air Force, was accounted for on June 30, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. 

From the Stars and Stripes archives: A young girl sits on one of the folding chairs at Berlin’s Tempelhof airport in Germany, July 12, 1954.

From the Stars and Stripes archives: First lady Michelle Obama serves ice cream to children of service members during an event in support of military families, offering up some caramel sauce as a topping, Vicenza, Italy, June 19, 2015.

A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy.

Newly released documents confirm that an agent in Miami oversaw a Cuban student group that interacted with Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination.