After the ball drops on New Year's Eve, it will drop a second time to kick off celebrations for America's 250th birthday.

Sher was a member of the pilot group known as the “Flying Tigers” — formed to protect China from Japanese invasion following ...

Famous composer and veteran of the Great Patriotic War Alexander Merlin died at the age of 101. This was reported on December 27 in the Telegram channel of the Russian Consulate General in ...

After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue to ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...

Hook’s 11-page memoir is on a website, The World War II Experience, a local nonprofit that preserves the stories of the World ...

An Army veteran remembers her wife's last Christmas after she was diagnosed with cancer. Time now for StoryCorps. In 2005, Army service member Alleria Stanley and her wife, Ellicia, just had their ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

White Christmas came ten years after Crosby had won an Oscar for 1944’s Going My Way. Though “White Christmas” became ...

The 101 African American officers arrested at Freeman Field about to be transported to Goodman Field, Kentucky. This image was likely taken with a hidden camera by Master Sergeant Harold J. Beaulieu, ...