An estimated 9,000 American Jews were held as POWs by the Germans. Their Jewish identity was a source of both pride and peril.

Hazel Ah Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to join the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) during World War II.

One young American's experience during post-war occupation duty in Japan.

Medal of Honor recipient, native son and hero of the Philippines, Jose Calugas went “beyond the call of duty” during the Battle of Bataan.

Staff Sergeant Robert Wolf served with the 343rd Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division, in both the European and Pacific theaters. On his dog tags he added a mezuzah.

Easy Company, 307th Infantry, assaulted Okinawa’s Ishimmi Ridge on May 17, 1945, beginning days of isolation and nightmarish suffering.

Primarily remembered as one of the titans of mid-century graphic design, S. Neil Fujita’s life was disrupted and marred by World War II and the ramifications of Executive Order 9066.

Music as a powerful expression of a sense of self and community was essential and uplifting for many  incarcerees—as expressions that spread beyond the confines of the Japanese American confinement centers.

A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.

The “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” 77 American military nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines, provided lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps where they were held from 1942-1945.

In 1946, Pfc. Sadao Munemori became the first Japanese American awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on the Gothic Line during World War II.

A real world spy story fit for the silver screen.