Bridget Gibbons is an institute intern at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

More than eighty years after the B-24D Liberator named Heaven Can Wait crashed off Awar Point in Papua New Guinea, four of its crew have been accounted for and will finally be returned to the United States.

Dr. Rothacker Smith looked death in the eye several times during World War II. In these moments during his wartime service, during captivity as a German POW and beyond, his faith carried him through and indeed directed much of his life, as did the proud tradition of the Buffalo Soldier which he upheld.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill's defeat in the British General Election of 1945 changed the course of the Potsdam Conference.

Newspaper correspondent Ernie Pyle became a national folk hero by reporting on the average soldier in World War II.