Actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise, along with his Gary Sinise Foundation, and The National WWII Museum are partnering to give a group of 55 Southern California veterans the opportunity to visit the Museum that honors their service. The veterans will arrive in New Orleans on June 24 to kick-off two days of exploring the Museum alongside Sinise.

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, The National WWII Museum will unveil its newest special exhibit, Infamy: Pearl Harbor Remembered.

The National WWII Museum marks the next phase of its $300 million expansion at a special morning ceremony March 22 when the uppermost piece of steel framework is installed on the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.

Though lasting only 360 days, Operation Magic Carpet was the largest combined air and sealift ever organized.

One of the most noteworthy fashion evolutions of the 1940s was the transformation of the women’s swimming attire, presumably in part due to fabric rationing.