FLATWOODS Christmas Eve 1944 was a dark day for the 66th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. At 99 years old, Jerry Carroll says his memory is fuzzy. But he vividly recalls the enemy attacking the SS ...

On October 28, 1960, for instance, Louis Armstrong jubilantly arrived in the Congolese capital of Leopoldville (renamed Kinshasa in 1966) to perform. He came to a country that has always mystified the ...