“Words alone cannot restore lost years”

From the Museum's Digitial Collections, firsthand narration to accompany the recent images from 17,500 feet below the Pacific waves. 

We can see in this passage by British General Frederick Morgan the spirit that ultimately made the Overlord operation an unprecedented historical success.

Field Marshal Lord AlanBrooke's War Diaries, 1939–1945 offers a glimpse into one long day of the exhausting planning for D-Day. 

A humble memorial on a sunny Caribbean island reminds the viewer how far world wars can reach.   

Explore Museum assets—from oral histories to online resources to exhibit content to essays by our historians—to learn more about the African American experience in World War II. 

Honoring a resistance icon who fought the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. 

"One simply feels a different and unsettling energy on the earth within those barbed wire fences."

Arriving in London in January 1944, Eisenhower assembles the strategic and tactical staff that will execute Operation Overlord. 

His portrayal in the 1970 film Patton aside, British General Bernard L. Montgomery was a great asset to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in planning for the D-Day invasion. 

The war correspondent and the entertainer shared a mission to connect with those in service during World War II.  

“Am Safe, A Prisoner of War in Germany; do not worry.”