Letters from a World War II sailor to his girlfriend and family members reveal the heartwrenching nature of the world's largest conflict and the mental toll it took on those forced to take part in it.

In our second and final extract, the couple plan their future... but tragedy looms large 04:00, Sun, Apr 20, 2025 Letter, September 18, 1940, South Cerney, Gloucs Flew above the clouds again today ...

Tucked in a folder inside were 43 letters from clearly smitten servicemen who'd met my mother at Red Cross dances in Rome in the final months of World War II. Plus, to our astonishment ...

His cousin, James Carroll Jordan, responded by sending a surviving piece of family history, a letter Jordan himself had written as a pilot in World War II. It was dated April 21, 1945, three weeks ...

The large number of Weber’s letters is not unusual, said Megan Harris, research specialist with the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. Given that World War II service members ...

The letter is part of a collection of wartime correspondence between the couple that were discovered several decades later in a "junk shop" on the south coast by Matt Wingett. They have now been ...

Readers on their choices during the Vietnam War,” letters, June 26) Both writers had fathers who served in World War II. When their sons were faced with service in Vietnam, one father ...

Diana, née Ladner, the love of Bob Keddie’s life, who was four months pregnant with their child, kept the letters, diaries, sketches and poems he’d sent over the previous two years.

This month marks 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe. That anniversary is resonating for NPR's Bob Mondello because his family recently found some long-forgotten letters his mother ...