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.

Beauford Anderson fought 75 enemies on Okinawa alone, heroics for which he received the Medal of Honor.

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. 

American personnel faced a humanitarian catastrophe when they liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp.