While the Overlord operation was a combined effort of land, sea, and air forces, the amphibious assault plan was given the code name Neptune.

Desperate for slave labor to continue the doomed war effort and fearful of camp survivors exposing Nazi crimes, German decision-makers put in motion nearly three-quarters of a million concentration camp prisoners. Of this number, 250,000 died in these death marches.

How the strategic location of the diamond-shaped peninsula proved too much for the Germans.

The National WWII Museum strives to preserve the legacy and lessons of World War II through the stories of those who experienced the war,...

By making the USS Indianapolis story a central plot point in Jaws, director Steven Spielberg introduced the story of the ship and its survivors to a wide audience, and with that larger audience came close scrutiny of how filmmakers told the story.