Staff Sergeant Robert Wolf served with the 343rd Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division, in both the European and Pacific theaters. On his dog tags he added a mezuzah.

Easy Company, 307th Infantry, assaulted Okinawa’s Ishimmi Ridge on May 17, 1945, beginning days of isolation and nightmarish suffering.

A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.

The “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” 77 American military nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines, provided lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps where they were held from 1942-1945.

In 1946, Pfc. Sadao Munemori became the first Japanese American awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on the Gothic Line during World War II.

Tensions arose almost immediately in Buchenwald between liberators and liberated.

One of two remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipients, Charles Coolidge, passed away on April 6, 2021 at the age of 99. He was awarded the Medal for his actions in France in 1944.

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

The story of a swagger stick presented to T/3 John Sweitzer by his German prisoners.

Medgar Evers was one of more than a million African Americans who served in the US military during World War II. He returned home only to face daily discrimination and paid the ultimate price for his fight against inequality.