How do we define when an event actually took place? When did the event become inevitable?

A sweeping view of World War II opens with the war's impact on one California family.  

"In my own mind, Winds was, and has remained, the pedestal, Remembrance the memorial.”

The Royal Flush skidded to a halt with wounded crewmen aboard. Pilot Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal jumped out of his aircraft and headed for a debriefing, asking another officer who didn’t fly that day, “Are they all this rough?”

A visit to Rommel's Normandy headquarters, which was empty of its master on D-Day.  

After a bloody first day of fighting, Japanese and American battleships slugged out one of World War II's most brutal battles. 

Does World War II have a War and Peace? Novels by Herman Wouk and Vasily Grossman plunge deep into the darkest history of the 20th century. 

Eleven months after witnessing the attack on Pearl Harbor, Harold Ward stood watch aboard the USS San Francisco as the heavy cruiser "steamed right into a mess." 

A personal quest for a grandfather's WWII service history inspired a new Museum resource for families researching a veteran. 

Looking deep into the past at the German Military Cemetery at La Cambe.