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 newly released memo sheds light on Japanese Emperor Hirohito's role in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Liberated American POWs relate their experiences in the aftermath at Nagasaki.

The 1st Infantry Division, the “Big Red One,” arrives in England in the fall of 1943 as part of the buildup for the Invasion of France.

Jews resisted the Nazis even under the most desperate circumstances in 1943.

The 100th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars.

A close look at Hitler's Buzz Saw, a fearsome weapon for the German army. 

The visible remains of Nazi brutality.

The WWII generation came of age in an era when popular literature condemned the futility of war. In Citizen Soldiers, Stephen Ambrose explored the cultural context from which those men and women emerged to do what had to be done. 

On November 3, 1943, Adolf Hitler called for a fundamental reorientation of German strategy to strengthen the west in preparation for an Anglo-American landing. 

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Submarine Experience: Part Two.

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