The first to cross the English Channel on D-Day, minesweepers cleared the way for the invasion of France.

Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa describes his experiences during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May 1942.

In his Museum oral history, Senior Chief Radioman Walter Nelson recounts the Battle of the Coral Sea.

As the American advance pushed further south, it ran headlong into fortified Japanese positions and heavily defended caves near Kakazu Ridge, the first defensive perimeter in what would be called the Shuri Line. The rapid advance and relatively light American casualties sustained so far on Okinawa ended.

Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.