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 ...

The "Storm of the Century" seemed to appear from nowhere. The weekend had been mild; some described Sunday as "shirtsleeve weather." But by Monday morning, Nov. 11, 1940, the wind out of the northwest ...

Armistice Day morning in 1940 was warm in La Crosse — 48 degrees at 6 a.m., the cold, hard rain of the preceding few days gone. Hundreds of duck hunters up and down the Upper Mississippi River looked ...

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 ...

Sunday, Nov. 10, 1940: “41 degrees and dampness all day.” Monday, Nov. 11, 1940: “Turning into an old-time snowstorm … the worst storm since Oct. 14, 1880.” Andrew Anderson of Hutchinson kept a ...

Nov. 11 now is called Veterans Day. But in 1940, it was still known as Armistice Day, marking the end of World War I. On Nov. 11, 1940, however, another war - World War II - was on, although the ...

Area residents who did not have to venture out on icy roads Wednesday, which was Veterans Day, probably were thinking of the unseasonably warm temperatures they had basked in earlier this month.

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This classic Answer Man first ran Nov. 3, 2017. See Page B7 for another look back at the Armistice Day blizzard. Dear Answer Man, the anniversary of the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940 ...

Last Sunday, I read James Broten’s letter to the editor about the 1940 blizzard. It made me think about the story that I am writing, as part of my mother’s life story. The following is what she told ...