March 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1836, Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio, killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days.

We step back to August 1940. Britain and its allies had been at war with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany for nearly a year and nobody knew how World War II would play out. After claiming millions of lives ...

Maj. John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of the war. He became an advocate for the 100th Bomb Group's history. By ...