World War II

Lithuanian-American young adult author Ruta Sepetys has known her whole life of the trials faced by refugees fleeing war. Her father fled from Lithuania…

Lou Baczewski joined “St. Louis on the Air” last year to discuss his plans to document his grandfather’s World War II service to benefit veterans’…

We’ve talked with the local storytelling project, Grannie Annie Family Story Celebration, extensively for a number of years, but 2015 marks something…

Defeat is not one of the primary words associated with Sir Winston Churchill’s career. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, he gave the…

During World War II, a St. Louis-based company took on a project that turned out to be detrimental to the health of its employees.Mallinckrodt Chemical…

Lou Baczewski, historian and author, joined “St. Louis on the Air” to talk about his efforts to document and honor his grandfather's World War II service…

During World War II, thousands of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers took to the skies daily. The planes were a crucial part of campaigns, from the bombing of…

Elmer Boehm's life is a story about war, survival, love and life-saving luck.The World War II veteran is headed to Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day as…

Just because Ben Fainer was silent for 60 years doesn’t mean he has nothing to say.Ripped from his home in Poland at age 9 by the Nazis, Fainer was…

Author Martin Goldsmith is no stranger to St. Louis: Not only was he born here, but his mother was a longtime violinist with the St. Louis Symphony…