In his Museum oral history, Senior Chief Radioman Walter Nelson recounts the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Diagnosed with Hansen’s disease and unable to access medication in Japanese-occupied Philippines, Josefina Guerrero decided to join the guerrilla movement and become a spy. Her disease allowed her to move untouched by the Japanese, providing critical intel to American forces as they moved towards the Battle of Manila.

World War II shaped the kind of person, musician, and composer Dave Brubeck became.

In this clip, Fred Hollis describes how he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became the first independent US intelligence agency. It only lasted for three years and three months but it became the basis for the modern Central Intelligence Agency.