In June 1944, USS Texas battled the largest German gun battery in the Cherbourg area in support of the VII Corps’ push on the city.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Boris Vetman and his older brother Samuel volunteered to fight to defend their homeland with the Red Army. 

In her My Day column on May 9, 1945, the day after V-E Day was officially confirmed, Eleanor Roosevelt reflects on the cautious mood, the devastation in Europe, and the unfinished task of winning peace.

After World War II 1.2 million Eastern European displaced persons refused to return home, creating a large-scale refugee crisis.

Mauthausen, one of the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, was liberated by the American 11th Armored Division on May 5, 1945.