A Navajo code talker turns his language and culture into battlefield weapons.

The FDR Memorial reflects his radiant calm and leadership through the crashing storm of war.

Sustained mobility was the game-changer of 20th-century warfare, and it gave Adolf Hitler the confidence to wage the greatest war in human history.

WWII leadership lessons from the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.

WWII naval aviator Dusty Kleiss helps secure victory at Midway—and in his life.

A memorial depicts FDR’s special relationship with ordinary Americans in a world verging on war.

How a forceful German counterattack in February 1944 could not push back the Allied Anzio landing.

World War II touched virtually every part of American life, even things so simple as the food people ate, the films they watched, and the music they listened to.

Fighting World War II presented daunting military obstacles overseas, but it also involved serious challenges for American communities on the Home Front. 

As the United States prepared for war, military leaders had a long list of needs—guns, tanks, ships, and equipment of every kind. One of the things they needed most of all, however, was people.