When POWs awoke at Stalag Luft I on May 1, 1945, the German guards had disappeared and a hand sewn Stars and Stripes replaced the swastika on the flagpole. The Red Army arrived a day later.

Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 after being hunted by Soviet troops storming Berlin.

Emma is what The National WWII Museum calls a veteran volunteer--but it’s not the service hours that keep her coming back.

The Museum's Senior Director of Public Programming revisits his favorite books on World War II in North Africa.

How American PT boats became part of the last patrol conducted in the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1942 the 24th General Hospital was created by doctors from Tulane University and nurses from New Orleans. Serving in the Mediterranean theater, they were known as the “Tulane Unit.”

The death of Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945 was characterized “A fitting end to a wretched life,” by The New York Times.

Building a Collection of World War II aircraft 60 years after the war has been a challenging aspect of building the Museum collection.

The horrors of World War I led to research that resulted in two antibiotics that saved thousands of lives in World War II, and many millions since.

From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the USS Crescent City (AP-40/APA-21) was in the thick of the US drive across the Pacific. See how a small ship made a major difference in World War II.