In a first letter home after his release from a Japanese POW camp, a fighter pilot thanks his family for their prayers.

Personal correspondence offers an intimate glimpse of a world at war.

The Allies created the International Tracing Service (ITS), now referred to as the Arolsen Archives, to centralize postwar efforts to locate missing persons and help survivors discover the fate of family members in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.

S/Sgt. James Killion, Jr. served for six years in the US Army. In the rain and mud of France, he dreamed of reuniting with his wife and meeting his infant son.

With bad weather and the limitations of meteorological technology at the time, General Dwight D. Eisenhower had to determine when to launch the cross-channel invasion and begin Operation Overlord. Pressure tells the story of the Allied weather forecast leading to the invasion of Normandy.