Heroism on the battlefield often goes unrecognized for generations, as it did for Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers.

Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

Medal of Honor recipient, native son and hero of the Philippines, Jose Calugas went “beyond the call of duty” during the Battle of Bataan.

A Christmas classic, Miracle on 34th Street, provides a surprisingly realistic perspective on WWII refugees.

Mexican-born Jose Lopez earned America’s highest military honor for his heroic one- man stand during the Battle of the Bulge.