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.
A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.
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.
A real world spy story fit for the silver screen.
As part of the March 1942 raid, British commandos were to disrupt vital harbor facilities.
Tensions arose almost immediately in Buchenwald between liberators and liberated.
The conclusion of World War II in Europe brought in its wake the largest movement of peoples and populations in European history.
The importance of World War II to Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and thought is often overlooked.
On April 21, 1946, two political parties united, creating a single, dominant party in what became East Germany.
On April 19, 1946, the League of Nations dissolved, ending 26 years of the existence of an organization which had proven incapable of preventing World War II.