General Douglas MacArthur vowed to return to the Philippines in 1942—and more than two years later, he delivered on his promise.

How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

By making the USS Indianapolis story a central plot point in Jaws, director Steven Spielberg introduced the story of the ship and its survivors to a wide audience, and with that larger audience came close scrutiny of how filmmakers told the story.

American soldiers liberated the concentration camp at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945, and were profoundly shaken by what they discovered.