While the RAF fought in the skies overhead, British civilians in towns of southern England endured regular visits from German bombers in what came to be known as “the Blitz."

Easy Company, 307th Infantry, assaulted Okinawa’s Ishimmi Ridge on May 17, 1945, beginning days of isolation and nightmarish suffering.

Cameron McCoy, PhD, is a native of Washington, D.C., and has taught courses in 20th- and 21st-century US history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Brigham Young University, and the United States Air Force Academy. 

The Freikorps were nothing if not the shock troops, the advance guard, of the Third Reich.

The National WWII Museum will host the 2023 Congressional Medal of Honor Society Convention, the largest annual gathering of Medal of Honor Recipients, in New Orleans, Louisiana.