Sugamo Prison and the Tokyo Trials
One young American's experience during post-war occupation duty in Japan.
One young American's experience during post-war occupation duty in Japan.
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.
Easy Company, 307th Infantry, assaulted Okinawa’s Ishimmi Ridge on May 17, 1945, beginning days of isolation and nightmarish suffering.
Primarily remembered as one of the titans of mid-century graphic design, S. Neil Fujita’s life was disrupted and marred by World War II and the ramifications of Executive Order 9066.
Music as a powerful expression of a sense of self and community was essential and uplifting for many incarcerees—as expressions that spread beyond the confines of the Japanese American confinement centers.
A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.
The “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” 77 American military nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines, provided lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps where they were held from 1942-1945.
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.