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Curator's Pick: The Weapons Collection
Highlights from the Collection over the last 20 years.
Highlights from the Collection over the last 20 years.
The George Medal may not be regulation, but for those that received it, it is as real and as earned as any decoration Uncle Sam ever struck in bronze.
General Douglas MacArthur vowed to return to the Philippines in 1942—and more than two years later, he delivered on his promise.
On July 16, 1946, a US Army tribunal at Dachau sentenced 46 members of the Waffen SS to death for crimes committed against Allied POWs and civilians.
When Jefferson Joseph DeBlanc entered Guadalcanal, the United States had been fighting a defensive campaign against Japanese attempts to retake Henderson Airfield and dominate the surrounding seas.