Kenneth Newton Walker, Brigadier General, US Army Air Corps received the Medal of Honor for his actions during a fatal bombing mission over Rabaul, New Britain, on January 5, 1943.

As General Douglas MacArthur’s campaign on Luzon was underway, news of the Palawan massacre produced a call to action to save thousands of Allied POWs and civilian internees from a similar fate. With the extraordinary assistance of Filipino guerrillas, four daring raids were launched behind Japanese lines to liberate those camps.

Käthe Leichter (1895-1942) was a champion for working-class women in the Austrian labor movement.

USS Mason was the first US Navy fleet vessel crewed by a majority of African American sailors.

African American truck drivers of the Red Ball Express kept American units supplied in the race across France during the summer and fall of 1944.