Machine gun nest overlooking the Yadkin River with the pillars of the Beard Bridge in the background. Soldiers protected the bridge and the train crossing from possible sabotage. Evin Burleson, ...
It was the 1940s and there was another great war going on. Men were called off to battle. Women were called to serve on the home front. It was a major shift in gender roles and social mores for the ...
COSHOCTON World War II Posters — Rallying the Home Front are on display in the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum through Dec. 31. This special exhibit of over 500 American propaganda posters commemorates ...
On the eve of the war that would cost the lives of more than one million British military personnel, change the path of the empire, and reshape the skylines of cities from London to Glasgow, people ...
Looking at such keepsakes as Kay Scholl's white honeymoon negligee made of dotted swiss curtains and the parachute-silk bed jacket she wore in the hospital after giving birth, it's easy to get the ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The WWII Wilmington Home Front Coalition will be hosting a V-J Day Remembrance and Celebration event next month. World War II historian Captain Wilbur Jones stopped by the ...