This video explores how the Enigma Machine, used in World War II, scrambles letters through a complex system of rotors and ...

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.

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 ...

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.

“Photos, old letters, family history.” In a sense cast adrift by the fire, Carroll was mesmerized by a World War II letter shared by a distant cousin who had witnessed some key moments of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edward Martin's letter to his wife began "Dear Princess ... Monday marked the 80th Veterans Day since the end of World War II. That was the World War after the Great War, also known as the ...

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 ...