Controlling the Ryukyu Islands would allow the Americans to finally sever Japan from its South Asian empire. 

In the annals of US Marine Corps history, few battles resonate like that of Iwo Jima. 

Slapton Sands taught the Allies lessons, at a high price.

In the grisly battle for European air supremacy, the Luftwaffe proved a deadly foe to Allied bombers.

Benjamin Salomon, a Jewish American dental officer in the Army, made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of his patients and fellow soldiers in World War II. Almost 60 years after his death in the Pacific, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.