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.

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

WWII minesweepers were unheralded—and indispensable.

The First Washington Conference, code-named ARCADIA, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942, set the strategic direction for the Anglo-American war effort and established the Joint Chiefs of Staff.