Hear about four unique items from our Collection that saw action.

Much has been made in the historical record of the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany in early March of 1945. However, fewer accounts exist of Operation Flashpoint, Ninth US Army’s assault crossing of the Rhine, which began on March 24. General William H. Simpson, commander of Ninth Army, has received little attention in the historiography of World War II.

On the Air, the newest Stage Door Canteen production, debuts at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans on March 25, 2011.

Baseball boosted American morale during World War II and whipped soldiers, sailors, and pilots into fighting shape.

General George S. Patton, Jr., one of America’s greatest battlefield commanders, died on December 21, 1945 in an Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany.