From Homer, to the World War I poets, to the novelists of Vietnam, chroniclers of war are alert to the dangers of glorification. This Memorial Day, it's good to ask why. Perhaps no conflict in ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Joey Balfour is the Assistant Director of Oral History at the National WWII Museum. The digital collections of the WWII Museum is vital to the memory and lessons of humanity. The ...

Letters from a La Jolla World War II veteran that were sent around the country after his death may have reached their final destination. A boxful of letters, artwork and photos was donated recently to ...

Explore the history and restoration of Armourgeddon’s PaK 36, IG 18, and PaK 38, each representing unique design choices and battlefield roles during World War II.

Time magazine, one of the best-known periodicals in worldwide publishing, years ago developed a series of hand-drawn color portraits of World War II figures for its covers. Fifty-five of those covers ...

Mel Neal didn’t remember the exact year he and lifelong friend Frank Ward acquired the first piece in their sprawling collection of U.S. military collectibles, but it was sometime in the late 1970s.

LOS ANGELES — A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine, California, has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his ...

BERN TWP., Pa. - From being portrayed above Pearl Harbor in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! To landing at the Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township. A replica World War II Japanese "Val" plane is ...

The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition. One section of the exhibition made me pause: a hallway-like area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Geological Survey biologist Jared Heath opens the massive steel doors of a former World War II munitions bunker at the ...