Despite the lack of proper diet and medical supplies, the proliferation of tropical disease, constant enemy bombardments, and the threat of being overrun by a fanatical enemy, American forces held on to “The Island of Death.”

Truman G. Causey was serving in the Philippines as a member of the 17th Bombardment Squadron, 27th Bombardment Group, when Japanese forces invaded the islands in December 1941. 

A look at the personal objects American soldiers collected during the D-Day landings, revealing how everyday items became lasting symbols of war, survival, and memory.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, but still came as a shock.

Hitler and his staff kept driving German troops onward to Moscow to impel Imperial Japan to enter the war.