Though lasting only 360 days, Operation Magic Carpet was the largest combined air and sealift ever organized.

The National WWII Museum kicks off Football Frenzy in New Orleans with the Gridiron Glory Exhibition opening on January 26, 2013.

Author Meredith Hindley introduces a 75th anniversary Museum screening of the 1942 Warner Bros. classic. 

Kenneth Newton Walker, Brigadier General, US Army Air Corps received the Medal of Honor for his actions during a fatal bombing mission over Rabaul, New Britain, on January 5, 1943.

Americans like to think of World War II as a “great crusade,” but if it was, the country certainly didn’t seem all that fervent about rushing into it. Think of it: by the usual reckoning, World War II lasted six years, from the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to Japan’s surrender on board the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. US participation spanned less than four years of that total, a little over half the war. Of seven campaigning seasons, the United States missed the first three and was active only in the final four.