The concluding "room" of FDR’s Washington, DC, memorial underscores a poignant connection to Thomas Jefferson.

After a Japanese torpedo attack, a heavy cruiser survives to fight again -- with the help of a temporary bow fashioned from a tropical tree trunk. 

George Benton Turner joined the US Marine Corps in 1918, but World War I ended before he shipped overseas. When World War II broke out, Turner, now in his early 40s, once again volunteered to fight for his country, this time enlisting in the US Army in October 1942.

Thousands of men and women wrote memoirs detailing their experiences in World War II. Here are four lesser known examples that merit a second look.

Walking the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, imagining the unlived lives of the D-Day dead.