World War II pilot Charles W. McCook died in action in 1943 but his remains were not identified for more than 80 years. He ...

John Gilbert Winant, the ambassador to Great Britain in the early 1940s, became the first head of the Social Security ...

Dear Miss Lake,” the fourth and final book in the series begun by “Dear Mrs. Bird,” suggests that it was time to wrap things ...

Harold Terens fought in World War II. He’s lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family ...

Norman’s mind was shattered in the sky above the refinery,” writes Jo Spencer, whose father was a gunner on a doomed B-24 ...

Amazon is developing a new 'Wolfenstein' show based on the long running video game series, because “The story of killing ...

It's been 80 years since the cities of dust and ash clouds hanging over Europe. Today, World War II and the fields of killing ...

A group of Chicago-area veterans traveled to New Orleans Wednesday to see for themselves a museum built in their honor.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII and the 16th year that the nationwide Spirit of ’45 initiative has ...

Private Henry J. Smith, of Fulton, died in a prison camp in the Philippines in 1942. He will be buried in Michigan.

I’m sure most of my readers have heard of two of those men. One was Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who owned railroads, established the Sun Valley ski resort in Idaho, dated ...

Experience history up close as the B-29 Doc, P-51 Gunfighter, and C-47 That's All, Brother visit Kansas City for ground tours ...