An organization devoted to returning artifacts as a way to heal the emotional wounds left by the war is helping the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum send these deeply personal items to the writers' d ...

Angelina Gonsalves received an unexpected, yet cherished, delivery from the US Postal Service last month -- a letter her late husband wrote to his mother while deployed overseas in 1945. The letter ...

In the chaos of a crumbling regime, a trove of letters reveals the unwavering faith of German soldiers in a doomed cause, ...

A new cache of previously unseen letters sent in the final months of the Second World War in 1945 has revealed how troops ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A two-page letter (.1ab) with ...

Stan Prager is a man surrounded by high tech equipment. It’s how he makes a living, repairing, building, and selling ...

Sometime in December of 1990, Parrish L. Clark, ranked at the time of Corporal, wrote to Karen Viereck, owner and publisher ...

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Arrived safely and just got done eating supper. So far, I don't like it at all." And with that letter, dated Aug. 19, 1943, Donald Fiorini's war began. Drafted in July of that year, Fiorini was to see ...