Operation Rashness, a major fall offensive intended to seize a port on China’s southeast coast, would open sea lines of communication into China for the first time in several years while providing a base of operations for the invasion of southern Japan.

Alberta Hunter was already a seasoned performer when she and the “Rhythm Rascals” traveled to the “forgotten” China-Burma-India (CBI) theater as the first African American entertainers to visit there, and she later sang for Eisenhower himself. Her service in World War II, however, is but one of many extraordinary stories of this highly regarded woman’s life.

In 1945, members of the American "Deer Team," part of the OSS, worked with Vietnamese guerrilla fighters to throw Japanese troops out of Indochina. As the war ended, the people of Vietnam looked to the United States to support their dreams of independence.

As international tensions increased around the globe in the spring of 1938, Americans were most disturbed by the brutal Japanese invasion of China.

A Road to Tokyo gallery takes shape around a striking WWII macro-artifact. 

Watching the Museum's P-40 Warhawk land in Campaigns of Courage.  

A Chinese WWII museum vividly depicts national unity in wartime.  

How do we define when an event actually took place? When did the event become inevitable?