Containing more than 40 restored historic drones, the museum's exhibits were built from a personal collection of drones that belonged to the late Harold "Red" Smith, of Parker, Texas, a retired lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force who was tragically killed by a drunk driver in 2017 before his dream of opening a museum could be realized.

Kawana, Japan, October 1957: Actor John Wayne lines up a shot while playing pool at a hotel during the filming of “The Barbarian and the Geisha.”

In 1939, half of America celebrated Thanksgiving, and the other half celebrated "Franksgiving." To boost the economy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up a week to create an extra seven days of Christmas shopping. Talk about a New Deal.

Love letters, photos and greeting cards were sent between Mel and Jane Atherton while Mel was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mel and Jane's four children — Paula, Janet, Mel and Connie — donated six two-inch three-ring binders containing 350 letters, many photographs and cards, and a digital flash drive to the Scituate Historical Society on Nov. 20 — a day before what would have been Mel and Jane's 80th wedding anniversary.

More than 300 passengers and crew on a British Airways flight could have been spared a months-long hostage ordeal in 1990 in Kuwait if Britain's Foreign Office had informed the airline that Iraq had commenced its invasion of its oil-rich Persian Gulf neighbor, newly disclosed files showed Tuesday.

Marcella Rose LeBeau, an Army nurse who was honored for her service during World War II and leadership in the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has died. She was 102.

Tuddenham St. Mary, England, November 1968: Travis Allen, 4, makes some new friends at the home of Robert S. Coe in a town near RAF Mildenhall, where Travis’s dad, Staff Sgt. Russell Allen, was stationed with the 513th Tactical Airlift Wing. One “lucky” bird was destined to return home with the Allens to be the guest of honor at their Thanksgiving dinner.

Larry S. Wassil, of Bloomfield, was leading a three-man reconnaissance team scouting enemy positions near Bergstein in late 1944 when he disappeared, the U.S. Department of Defense said. Wassil and the two other soldiers scattered when Axis forces began firing on them.

Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 1998: On the third anniversary of a shelling in downtown Tuzla that killed 71 people, mostly children, a man mourns his loved ones at the gravesite of most of the victims. In 2007, a Bosnian court convicted Novak Dukic — a local Serbian army commander at the time of the attack — of war crimes and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Camp Bedrock, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 1998: As the 1st Cavalry Division takes over peacekeeping duties from the 1st Armored Division, 1st Lt. Kelvin Brown, Sgt. Jeremiah Walter and 1st Lt. Karl Warnsman, left to right, take inventory of ammunition and nonlethal projectiles before signing for and accepting the assets.