The Soviets inflicted terrible brutality on their Japanese captives.

In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became the first independent US intelligence agency. It only lasted for three years and three months but it became the basis for the modern Central Intelligence Agency.

World War II shaped the culinary experiences of Japanese Americans in incarceration camps.

The construction of a democratic order in Japan during the American occupation was one of the more significant outcomes of the conflict.

Though the Aleutian Tigers have largely faded from public memory of World War II, their legacy lives on in both Alaskan historical sites and in the preserved or restored P-40s of the 343rd that still bear their iconic yellow tigers.