In the vast library of books about or adjacent to World War II, a small part of one shelf is occupied by books that pertain to sports. Its importance belies its size, because it contains two enduring ...

After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home. Army Air Force Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the P-38J Lightning fighter ...

As a huge wave of U.S. Marines bent on delivering Pearl Harbor payback waded onto the beach of the Solomon Island of Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942, a Japanese radio operator frantically vowed to his ...

"The Mosquito Bowl" will tell the true story of college football stars gone off to war who stage a "bowl game" in the South ...

This US Marine Corps documentary from 1944 showcases the battle of Guadalcanal The small island of Guadalcanal was like many of the Pacific islands defended with great determination by the Japanese ...

There is pride of place in his shared nursing home room for the Honor Flight New England Certificate. It documents his June 17 chartered trip with other veterans to the war memorials in the nation's ...

Ernest E. “Whitey” Eschbach grew up in south Allentown and worked as a knitting machine operator until the Army drafted him two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He shipped out to the ...

The endless college football bowl season is upon us. Beginning last weekend with the Mrytle Beach Bowl, and mercifully ending on Jan. 8 with the College Football Playoff National Championship game, 43 ...

Guadalcanal 1944. In a haunting black-and-white photograph, hundreds of faces display ear-to-ear grins, belying the fact that the man entertaining them on stage is just temporary relief for them from ...

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