My Gal Sal's journey to the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.

In William Shirer's war memoir, two foreign correspondents walk in a Berlin park and share a farewell drink as a global inferno nears ignition.  

A passage from William Shirer's memoir of The Nightmare Years bears witness to the stark brutality of 1940 Europe. 

A captured fighter pilot's escape attempts were as numerous as they were brazen. 

Explore Museum assets—from oral histories to online resources to exhibit content to essays by our historians—to learn more about the African American experience in World War II. 

As the "Hinge of Fate" was turning across the globe, Operation Torch became the US military's first step toward defeat of Nazi Germany in Europe.

The M1942 jump jacket and trousers worn by Lieutenant Alphonse Czekanski for the Normandy invasion join the Museum's displays. 

A French writer fleeing Paris in June 1940 has a nervous first encounter with the enemy. 

Leon Werth captures the chaos and uncertainty that preceded the Nazis into Paris. 

George Kennan is most known for his diplomatic work following World War II, as the Soviet Union imposed an Iron Curtain on the states of Eastern Europe and Cold War tensions began. But Kennan's writings during World War II give the eerie account of a region on the precipice of Nazi conquest.