Frank Fujita’s American citizenship and Japanese heritage made his time as a prisoner of the Japanese particularly torturous.

Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project Sites developed across the US in 1942 and 1943.

In April 1945, fifty nations gathered in San Francisco, California and created The United Nations.

The shocking and unexpected death of beloved war correspondent Ernie Pyle spawned many efforts to memorialize his storied life.

After World War II 1.2 million Eastern European displaced persons refused to return home, creating a large-scale refugee crisis.