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

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On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

The remains of an Army private from Detroit who died as a World War II prisoner of war in the Philippines have been ...

Donated by the naval officer’s descendants, the two letters are now on display at the Fukushima Museum in Japan to mark the ...

My wife and I were recently doing a little house cleaning and downsizing. Specifically, we were going through many of our old ...

As 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 'Forced To Leave' exhibit at the UAMN highlights Alaska's ...