Remembering a decorated WWII Marine and longtime friend of The National WWII Museum. 

By the time Edward Carter had turned 24, he had fought alongside the Chinese against the Japanese, served in the Merchant Marine, and, finding that uneventful, joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the fight against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

Wilma Betty Gray's WAC journey began when she boarded a train, destination unknown. Her assignment was Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the Manhattan Project.

Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

Mexican-born Jose Lopez earned America’s highest military honor for his heroic one- man stand during the Battle of the Bulge.