And all of a sudden, a napkin would come ... Gable offered to serve in World War II and did, flying in a B-17. Bob Hope volunteered to fight, too. However, President Roosevelt had other plans ...

World War II also produced the United Nations, whose key objectives were to safeguard the sovereignty of countries and to prohibit armed aggression and territorial conquest. The UN was very much U.S.

Timeless Patriotism: Guam and World War II is available to stream on pbs.org ... Speaking Japanese ] >> From the NBC newsroom in New York, President Roosevelt said in a statement today that ...

Amid rumbling that the United States would soon enter World War II, the well-connected Cochran lobbied President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the chief of the Army ...

He was like any other soldier serving in the Aleutians during World War II. Except he was 50 years ... Neill — who petitioned President Franklin Roosevelt to embargo Nazi Germany.

In November of 1995, Dayton played host to the warring Balkan factions and by the time all the parties left the negotiations at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, a peace proposal – brokered by Richard ...

A collection of World War II memorabilia was stolen over Memorial Day weekend from a homeowner in Oakland, California.

Military collectibles from World War II have surpassed their status as mere artifacts and become tangible snippets of history ...

On Memorial Day, a man hopes that someone will return his collection of World War II Memorabilia that was stolen over the ...