For National Ask a Curator Day, Larry Decuers explores the Museum's collection of flight jackets. 

Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.

In the grisly battle for European air supremacy, the Luftwaffe proved a deadly foe to Allied bombers.

Despite the lack of proper diet and medical supplies, the proliferation of tropical disease, constant enemy bombardments, and the threat of being overrun by a fanatical enemy, American forces held on to “The Island of Death.”

A remarkable artifact survives to tell the story of the first moments of the Battle of the Atlantic.