Roughly 100 companies, coast to coast, helped Republic Aviation Corporation manufacture each P-47 Thunderbolt.

After the war, hundreds of thousands of US warplanes remained—but the military needed only a fraction of them.

The loss of Johnnie David Hutchins was devastating to his family, but his moment of bravery almost certainly saved other parents and siblings from experiencing that same loss in the fall of 1943.

The US military was a nearly unstoppable force during WWII, but the challenges of weather and natural disasters meant that the power of American bombs and bullets could pale in comparison to the power of nature.

Collin Kelly’s story of bravery during the first bombing missions in the Pacific flourished at a time when nearly all war news was grim.

Civilian workers struggle to keep their cars running amid strict wartime restrictions.

In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.

Once a bombing range, one Hawaiian island is on the long road back.

The famous attack on December 7 wasn’t the only time Japanese aircraft set out to bomb Pearl Harbor.

The only submarine that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor later became a crowd-drawing oddity, then a museum piece.