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 ...

The letters detail D-Day, 30-cent haircuts, and military life. The USO is now hoping to track down the family of the soldier.

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 ...

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 ...

A letter from a St. Louis solider stationed in China during World War II sits on the table at the Missouri History Library in St. Louis, on Oct. 22, 2025. Christopher Alan Gordon, director of library ...

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.