The 1940s opened with Americans still working their way out of the Great Depression and watching war spread across Europe and ...

Explore 40 classic cars from the early 1940s, featuring vintage designs, historic models, and automotive style from the era.

At the dawn of the 1940s, much of the world was already at war. Less than two years later, the United States would be drawn into the conflict. But by the end of the decade, the U.S. was again at peace ...

World War II significantly influenced the design of vehicles released in the 1940s. The majority of the vehicles manufactured during the war reflect utilitarian, austere designs with an emphasis on ...

SHELTON ---- It was a time of gas and food rationing, of bombers droning overhead, of boys going off to war before they even graduated from high school, and of straining to hear news reports through ...

While renovating her Dumfries flat, Kirsty Geddes discovered a collection of 1940s items hidden under the floorboards, including D-Day era newspapers, a 1942 fire extinguisher, and vintage household ...

Another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals from Greece's civil war era — have been dug up in a park in a suburb near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, local ...

Chocolate Cream Pie. (Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS) Chocolate Cream Pie. (Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS) At the dawn of the 1940s, much of the world was already at ...