Q: While thinking through the operating scheme for my World War II-era (1944) model railroad, I wondered where troop trains sat in timetable priority. Obviously they were extras, but were they bumped ...

Royal Marine veteran Joseph Douglas Cheshire, who has just turned 102, got parental consent and joined just after his 17th ...

History isn’t always as far away as it seems. In Lamar County, it's tucked between the Purvis Library and the post office.

1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb of killing Bobby Franks in 1924, was released on parole. Other “crimes of the century” have come and gone, but the “perfect murder” of Bobby ...

"We had no idea what it was for and no interest what it was for. We were just made to work there." The post WWII survivor was kidnapped and forced to dig Hitler’s bunker appeared first on Talker.

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

On Feb. 21, Sten Gould turns 100 years old. His wartime journals have preserved the voice of a soldier who copied Nazi morse code transmissions, walked through Hitler's bombed-out home and came home ...

Submarines were built to sink ships — not trains. But during one incredible patrol in World War II, the crew of the USS Barb took the fight somewhere no one expected. Landing men behind enemy lines, ...

A Queensland centenarian and WWII veteran who witnessed bombs being dropped on Australia says it is important the youth of today learn about wars to prevent future conflicts from happening.

Ches Black, 100, was taken to Berlin in Germany due to a shortage of manual labour there - but had no idea he would be working for the dictator.

Turning 100 this August, Harold Katz (B.S.) has lived a lifetime many of us would be fortunate to have. A 1950 graduate of ...

From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and ...