The Forrest Gump author presents on his new book The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II. 

During the war, nearly 1,100 highly trained women tested, flew, and ferried 12,650 aircraft over 60 million miles as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

Victory gardens became (and remain) an iconic image of life on the Home Front during World War II. 

The men of the African American 761st Tank Battalion entered combat at Morville-les-Vic on November 7, 1944. In an "inferno" of battle, they proved their worth in the first of a series of hard fought battles.

Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938.