Known as the “Ace of Aces,” Major Richard Ira Bong is credited with the downing of an impressive confirmed total of 40 enemy aircraft.

NEW ORLEANS (December 2, 2009) – "Never forget." Those two words serve as both a remembrance and a call to action for Americans as the na...

Seeing the cemetery for the German war dead at Futa Pass was a stark reminder of the human cost of defeating fascism.

How did Dwight D. Eisenhower's WWII experiences prepare him for the presidency? Watch a fascinating presentation by author and historian William Hitchcock. 

Mexican American US Army medic Corporal Anthony Acevedo suffered unimaginable horrors as a POW of the Germans. He survived Stalag IXB and then the Berga slave labor camp as well as the trauma and stigma of having been a prisoner of war.