On Sept. 16, 1940, the Selective Training and Service Act went into effect as the first peacetime draft in the history. Like ...

Arnold School fields were being used for army training, evacuees were welcomed ... through pictures to see what life was like in 1940. ICYMI: 51 eclectic historic pictures in Blackpool taken ...

Thirteen couples kept three army chaplains busy with marriage ceremonies before the Pre-Easter Parade.

inadequate training, and inept strategic direction, and indeed opens with an excellent account of the disaster that befell the Italian Tenth Army from December 1940 – February 1941, against a better ...