Curator of Oral History Joey Balfour offers some suggestions for interviewing friends or loved ones at home.

In 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) became the first independent US intelligence agency. It only lasted for three years and three months but it became the basis for the modern Central Intelligence Agency.

Knitting allows Knit Your Bit donor to honor veterans in her family.

Although the precipitating events could not have been more different, both high school students in World War II and high school students today have seen their school lives disrupted and irrevocably changed seemingly overnight.

The hill in question was code named Sugar Loaf by the Marines. The unassuming little hill did not appear to be anything more than a bump in the road to the Marines who lay in their positions on the morning of May 12, 1945, just a quick objective to take in a day or less. Eight days later they would find out how wrong their assumptions had been.

The technology of the Manhattan Project didn't just find its way into bombs--it powers submarines and other ships today.

The first bomber to hit Japan after Pearl Harbor, the B-25 Mitchell was found in every theater of the war and was a rugged, multipurpose bomber beloved by her aircrew for its survivability and ease to fly.

A look back at some of our best past programs covering the Liberation of concentration camps.

Allied troops race to Berchtesgaden for a chance to drink from the biggest liquor cabinet in Europe.

As the world celebrated victory over Nazi Germany and the boys eventually did come home, the war they fought thousands of miles from American shores came home with them. It came home with them in their wounds, in their memories, in their daily life…in their nightmares.