James Goodrich was a veteran of two campaigns when he landed on Iwo Jima in 1945 with the 5th Marine Division.

German generals died in droves in World War II.

Private First Class Ferris LeBlanc served his country honorably during World War II. But the credit due to him was denied thanks to the tragic circumstances of his death in the Up Stairs Lounge fire in 1973.

The National WWII Museum is gifted with a portion of the Atlantic Wall from the Utah Beach Museum in France. The three pieces of the wall, an artifact from the D-Day invasion, will be on display indefinitely at the New Orleans museum.

The National WWII Museum is embarking on a major new initiative, this time online, with the release of 150 oral histories and 5,000 wartime images, including rare color photos. Fully searchable, this digital collection forms the nucleus of what will become an ever-expanding repository of fascinating WWII materials accessible to all at ww2online.org.