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

A haunting visit to Mulberry "B" on Gold beach.

A WWII memorial in Volgograd stands as a testament to memory, innocence, and the evil of war.

For National Ask a Curator Day, Larry Decuers explores the Museum's collection of flight jackets. 

Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.

In the grisly battle for European air supremacy, the Luftwaffe proved a deadly foe to Allied bombers.

Seventy-five years after the Germans began their attack on Stalingrad, a look at the Volga from atop Mamayev Kurgan.

Despite the lack of proper diet and medical supplies, the proliferation of tropical disease, constant enemy bombardments, and the threat of being overrun by a fanatical enemy, American forces held on to “The Island of Death.”

A remarkable artifact survives to tell the story of the first moments of the Battle of the Atlantic.

The story behind PT-305's nickname.

An unlikely victory by a tiny Rapides Parish school in a statewide Louisiana “scrapping” drive during World War II left a lasting legacy.

Servicemen could dance with Betty Grable, be served a sandwich by Shirley Temple, and watch performances by Bob Hope and Carmen Miranda. Roy Rogers even rode his horse, Trigger, right onto the stage for some prancing tricks.