The Army was promised jetpacks. At least briefly. From the end of World War II to well into the 1950s, U.S. Army experiments kept pushing the idea of giving soldiers limited flight, as a way to make ...

Plastic toy soldiers have been around since the late 1930s and soared in popularity during the 1950s plastics boom. Photographer Luke Sharrett visited J.K. Manufacturing Co. in Kalkaska, Mich., the ...

Q: I’ve recently come across two boxed sets of Britains soldiers. The box for one set is marked 9401; the second is marked 9402. I don’t believe the soldiers, carriages and horses have ever been out ...

The Little Green Army Men toys we all know and love have a long tradition stemming since the 1930s. In 2014, the toys were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame for their service on the ...

The large post World War II birth rate between 1946 and 1964 became labeled as the baby boomer or “boomer” years. My previous article about dangerous baby boomer toys resulted in a number of readers ...