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Carlsbad’s Nancy Stratford, now 106, is the last survivor of the 25 American women pilots who served in the Royal Air Force’s ...
In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...
A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...
World War II veteran Thomas Roberts celebrated his 100th birthday with a special celebration at VFW Post 4588 in Bossier City ...
Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...
Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...
Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.
Looking for World War II in Singapore means peering through a fast, feverish, imaginative city, for a slow, old, and ...
A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...
An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...