Vera Atkins, 92, a World War II British spymaster who is considered the inspiration for Miss Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

Retired Adm. Barry K. Atkins, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while commanding what many military historians believe was the only U.S. Navy destroyer to sink an enemy ...

Retired Admiral Barry K. Atkins, who was at the command when his destroyer sunk a Japanese battleship in a historic World War II battle, died Tuesday. He was 94. Atkins, a 1932 Naval Academy graduate ...

On a coastal town in England yesterday, mourners paid their respects at a funeral for Eileen Nearne, 89, who told very few people that, during World War II, she was a spy.

Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Atkins was born in a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London (The Mothers' Hospital in ...

Readers of William Stevenson’s 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid, about a Canadian-born Second World War spy for the British (named, oddly enough, William Stephenson) will find themselves in familiar ...

Eileen Nearne, heroic World War II secret agent, honored at funeral this week (FOLLOWUP STORY) By John F. Burns c. ... including a Croix de Guerre medal awarded to her by the French government after ...

If Hitler's Germany had won World War II, ... Through January, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is highlighting some of its art pieces recovered from the Nazi looting.

The role of women as spies during World War II. ... Atkins eventually traced all 117 and brought their killers to war crimes trials. Atkins was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1948, ...

REVERE — In a shady spot on the front lawn of the American Legion Post 61, a tall granite monument lists the names of 149 women from Revere who served in World War II. Eileen Haydock Merullo, 92 ...

He was born Feb. 8, 1923, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and had a been a resident of Lorain since childhood. He graduated from Lorain High School. Atkins was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II.

Leah Rawls Atkins views the Great Depression and World War II as “watershed years for the state of Alabama.” At noon on Wednesday, Sept. 30, the noted Southern historian will ...