Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was a shock to the Americans, but it was preceded by serious intelligence failures 

Despite the restrictions on ranks, force strength, and combat, the 1948 Women’s Armed Services Integration Act still represented a major step in women’s military participation. Most significantly, it allowed women to pursue military service as a career. 

The George Medal may not be regulation, but for those that received it, it is as real and as earned as any decoration Uncle Sam ever struck in bronze.

In 1942, when the Nazis rounded up the children in his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and sent them to the death camp at Treblinka, Janusz Korczak refused to leave their side. He was murdered alongside his pupils shortly after arriving at Treblinka. 

John “Lucky” Luckadoo served as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber copilot, flying difficult and dangerous combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe with the 100th Bomb Group—the legendary "Bloody Hundredth."