The Buildup for Invasion
The 1st Infantry Division, the “Big Red One,” arrives in England in the fall of 1943 as part of the buildup for the Invasion of France.
Mail Call: Bob Hope and “Command Performance”
“While some high school letters are worn on sweaters, your letters are next to our hearts.”
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Article TypeThe Story of Austrian Catholic Resister Franz Jägerstätter
Terrence Malick’s upcoming WWII drama is officially titled A Hidden Life.
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Bill Detweiler and The National WWII Museum
President & CEO Emeritus Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller, PhD, remembers "a great man and a great friend."
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History Through the Viewfinder
Beneath the streets of London and perfectly preserved, Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms offer an exhilarating opportunity to walk with WWII history.
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“All Those Who Fight for Freedom": Resisting the Germans before D-Day
Partisans risked everything to free Europe from fascist rule.
European Theater of Operations
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History Through the Viewfinder
Beneath the streets of London and perfectly preserved, Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms offer an exhilarating opportunity to walk with WWII history.
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“All Those Who Fight for Freedom": Resisting the Germans before D-Day
Partisans risked everything to free Europe from fascist rule.
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The Words of War
We can see in this passage by British General Frederick Morgan the spirit that ultimately made the Overlord operation an unprecedented historical success.
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The Words of War
Field Marshal Lord AlanBrooke's War Diaries, 1939–1945 offers a glimpse into one long day of the exhausting planning for D-Day.
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History Through the Viewfinder
A humble memorial on a sunny Caribbean island reminds the viewer how far world wars can reach.
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History Through the Viewfinder
"One simply feels a different and unsettling energy on the earth within those barbed wire fences."
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History Through the Viewfinder
Arriving in London in January 1944, Eisenhower assembles the strategic and tactical staff that will execute Operation Overlord.
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History Through the Viewfinder
His portrayal in the 1970 film Patton aside, British General Bernard L. Montgomery was a great asset to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in planning for the D-Day invasion.
Pacific Theater of Operations
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An Eyewitness to the USS Hornet's Last Battle
From the Museum's Digitial Collections, firsthand narration to accompany the recent images from 17,500 feet below the Pacific waves.
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The Words of War
Liberated American POWs relate their experiences in the aftermath at Nagasaki.
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The Words of War
The first American war correspondent to visit Nagasaki after the atomic bomb witnesses the randomness of fate.
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The Words of War
Author Keith Lowe examines the legacies of the global conflict that shaped our modern world.
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Photo Finish: The Battle of Tarawa
Only the film With the Marines at Tarawa can convey the struggle and sacrifice of the Marines on the Pacific atoll.
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Launching the War? Hirohito and Pearl Harbor
A newly released memo sheds light on Japanese Emperor Hirohito's role in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Mail Call: Bo Perabo and Liberation in the Pacific
In a first letter home after his release from a Japanese POW camp, a fighter pilot thanks his family for their prayers.
