A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Judy and Scott Gill of Prairie du Chien, Wis., made a special visit to Fort McCoy on Dec. 2 to deliver 26 vintage photos of Army activities around ...

You know the car brands, but do you know which takes its name from a cluster of stars and which is named after a young girl?

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Movie poster from Popeye, 1980.

The toys below were some of the decade’s biggest — and they’ve stayed popular ever since. The skinny, wide-eyed, green ...

A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had ...

One of the decade's greatest WW2 naval movies, starring Tom Hanks, has become a sleeper hit on Apple TV+ five years after its ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ...

It’s November 7th, 1944. A flight of twelve P38 Lightnings led by Colonel Clarence ‘Curly’ Edwinson is on a search & destroy mission in the area of Niš, in southern Serbia. They spot a convoy on the ...