Norman Roloff and his best friend, Sonny Ehlers, used to get together every Armistice Day and toast their good fortune. They weren't, after all, dead. On the afternoon of Nov. 11, 1940, the men were ...

Duck hunting had been a little slow in the fall of 1940. That year, November 11, Armistice Day—renamed Veterans Day in 1954—fell on a Monday, so hunters were out taking advantage of a three-day ...

It was November 11 and 12, 1940 and an unusually warm day as duck hunters all over the Midwest set off for a day in the woods. Little did they know a storm was brewing and within hours, they would be ...

Wednesday, Nov. 10, was the 35th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a massive Lake Superior storm; today (Thursday, Nov. 11) is the 70th anniversary of the Armistice Day storm that ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

FARGO — The infamous Armistice Day Blizzard hit this region suddenly on Nov. 11, 1940, killing 154 people in the Upper Midwest. Among the dead were 49 Minnesotans, mostly bird hunters who froze to ...

LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves ...

We are rapidly approaching the anniversary of the deadliest day on the Mississippi River. It was Armistice Day, Monday, Nov. 11, 1940, when one of the most intense Midwest storms in history swept into ...

At the end of World War I, the so-called ‘War to end All Wars,’ Nov. 11 was recognized as the day to remember and to honor all those killed and injured in wars: soldiers, civilians, men, women and ...