Digging through pages of centuries-old records, volunteers are transcribing the cursive text to make it easier for others to access the documents as part of a joint project of the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Park Service.

With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Harry Miller, 96, and Frank Cohn, 99, another Army veteran of the battle, will take center stage Nov. 13 at a small theater in the nation’s capital to share eyewitness accounts of the five-week fight.

Forty-nine Okinawan educators got a first-hand look at American educational methods Friday and were surprised that American students “feel so much at ease in school.” This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific — Okinawa edition, Mar. 23, 1958. It is republished unedited in its original form.

A handful of Red Cross girls are traveling hundreds of bumpy miles each week to bring coffee and donuts to American and allied units in the division and to perk up morale with light entertainment. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Dec. 19, 1958. It is republished unedited in its original form.

Japanese educators from elementary schools on Okinawa recently visited Kadena Air Base to receive a crash-course in a new method of teaching. In January, their American counterparts will visit their schools to learn how Japanese classrooms are run.

An ocean liner built for a double life as a secret Cold War transport ship for troops will become the world’s largest artificial reef on the ocean floor on the Gulf Coast, according to plans from tourism officials in Okaloosa County, Fla.

Two decades later, memories from the second Battle of Fallujah, which killed nearly 100 U.S. service members, remain raw for many who fought there. And some continue to grapple with the legacy of what it all meant.

Children — donned in their best Halloween costumes — are eager to pet “Clarence the Camel,” the mascot of the pilots of the 86th Fighter Group and donate some of their candy to the children of Berlin, so that Clarence can ferry them to the blockaded city on his own C47 Operation Vittles flight.

In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that officials used to pull Japanese Americans from their homes, force them to sell their property and imprison them in internment camps for years. Baseball, the most American of sports, served as a desperately needed diversion.

Butler Martin made his mark as a barrier-breaking World War II Marine who trained under challenging conditions in the segregated South. He died Sept. 27 at age 101.