Even as World War II in Europe officially ended in May 1945, bitter fighting erupted across Eastern Europe as local partisans fought the Soviet occupation.

The Freikorps were nothing if not the shock troops, the advance guard, of the Third Reich.

War production was crucial for an Allied victory, but what happened when labor strikes challenged the “arsenal of democracy”?

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.