The Nuremberg Laws transformed the definition of Jewish identity from religious to racial, stripping rights and paving the way for the Holocaust.

Originally designed by an eccentric engineer for hurricane rescues, it became the LVT used for armored landings in both the Pacific and European theaters.

American personnel faced a humanitarian catastrophe when they liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 

One of America’s only female war correspondents reported on the aftermath of D-Day, the Battle of Saint-Malo, and the liberation of Paris.

Jackie Robinson is best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Less well known, but just as pivotal, is his 1944 court-martial after refusing to move to the back of a military bus.