Girl Scouts’ history of volunteering during times of crisis has been prevalent since the very beginning. 

Jack Mathis was born the second of three children in San Angelo, Texas, on September 25, 1921.

The US Merchant Marine provided crucial, yet often overlooked, logistical support for the Allied war effort.

From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. Even as the war consumed large portions of Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was no clear consensus on how the United States should respond.

The USS Benevolence was one of three hospital ships in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. The ship served as a haven and first stop in rehabilitation for thousands of Allied POWs.