On October 12, 1945, US Army medic Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

When the United States entered World War II, it also declared total war on New Orleans most sinful reputation.

The Canadian offensive on Verrières Ridge, led by the Canadian Black Watch, was a savage "forgotten fight" that helped ensure General Omar Bradley's US Army breakout from Normandy in Operation Cobra.

Staff Sergeant Raymond Strojny almost single-handedly took out German strongpoint WN-61, clearing the way for his 1st Division comrades to take Omaha Beach's Fox Green sector on D-Day.

Before he became famous as the creator of James Bond in the 1950s, Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department. He devised a number of wartime schemes worthy of a Bond novel. Some were successful and some were too wild to carry out.