In one diary entry from September 4, 1938, he revealed what happened when he visited Winston Churchill at his country estate: ... Diaries kept by World War II soldiers are very rare, ...

In 1943, a Marine pilot kept a diary during his service in World War II. Lt. Charles C. Winnia chronicled his missions flying against the Japanese in the Pacific, and his love for a girl back in ...

John D. Lukacs recently was reading a war diary for research when he noticed the name Linus Schramski popping up in entries written by a fellow POW.

Her journal entries ended after Feb. 13, 1945, when she wrote, “Around 2:00 the mail came and behold there was this V-mail stating that my darling was wounded in action.

Marine’s World War II diary, bequeathed to his high-school sweetheart, found by her 70 years later ... Jones’s last entry, written aboard the USS Maui on Dec. 1, 1943, ...

In a World War II prisoner diary acquired by the Library of Congress, George Washington Pearcy kept lists of the foods he ate and the things he wanted to do when he got back to the U.S. (Ricky ...

In his World War II diary now available in a book, ... The first diary entry is Feb. 18, 1942 as Capt. Cutler's convoy leaves Bangor, Maine. The last is May 20, 1944 in Australia.

CHAMPAIGN — Veteran Charles F. "Chick" Bruns of Champaign wrote a "blog" during World War II. Only now is it being published. And with the help of a website created by his son, readers can ...

1. At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published ...

When pilot George W. Holdefer was sitting aboard a ship “off some port in England” at the end of World War II, he recalled what life had been like in Stalag Luft 13, a POW camp at Langw… ...

Weldon Albert Stein was born in Cape Girardeau on Nov. 29, 1911, a son of Arthur C. Stein and May Sheppard. He graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1928 and Southeast Missouri ...

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - John D. Lukacs recently was reading a war diary for research when he noticed the name Linus Schramski popping up in entries written by a fellow POW. The documentary filmmaker ...