On January 10, 1942, the United States launched one of its most important and also most memorable domestic initiatives of the entire war: the “Salvage For Victory” campaign.
Civilian workers struggle to keep their cars running amid strict wartime restrictions.
On January 1, 1942, 26 countries signed the Declaration of the United Nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of World War II.
The vestige of a peculiar tradition, short snorters served as both wartime souvenir and membership certificate to a special club.
The German response to the Warsaw Uprising was characterized by ruthless terror and unrelenting bloodshed, which caused civilian support to drastically diminish.
Polish civilians played a critical role in the two-month long conflict in Warsaw.
The surveillance and detention of Italian Americans after Pearl Harbor is a little-known piece of WWII history.
Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
AMM2c Durell Wade made the ultimate sacrifice manning his battlestation on USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.