The National WWII Museum remains temporarily closed, but our work continues online.

Louis M. Prevost, the father of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, participated in the landings in Normandy and Southern France during World War II.

Jack Mathis was born the second of three children in San Angelo, Texas, on September 25, 1921.

A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.

Following victory, the Allies turned to the legal system to hold Axis leaders accountable. In an unprecedented series of trials, a new meaning of justice emerged in response to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both the Germans and the Japanese throughout the war.