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Love Ray and Daddy: The Toohey Family Letter Collection
Learn MoreOne family's WWII story as told through correspondence written to a young wife and mother.
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“AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME…”
Learn MoreAs the world confronted the devastation left at the end of World War II, people everywhere struggled to comprehend the scale of bloodshed caused by the ideology of the Nazi Party.
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Looking into the Mirror: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Learn MoreIt’s a day for the international community and men and women of good will everywhere to call to mind the six million Jews and all the other victims killed by Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
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Audie Murphy Single-handedly Stopped a German Attack
Learn MoreFrom Murphy’s exposed position on top of the burning tank destroyer, he killed over 20 German soldiers and repelled their attack.
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David Montgomery - Mourning a Friend of the Museum
Learn MoreDavid Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and son of Field Marshal Bernard "Monty" Montgomery (1928-2020)
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Kampfgruppe Peiper at Stoumont: Drawing the Noose
Learn MoreAn incredibly thick blanket of fog hung low over Stoumont and the Amblève valley on the morning of December 19. But even through the fog, American observers on the outskirts of Stoumont could see that a sizable attack was about to commence.
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Interview with Dr. Alexandra Richie, Author of "Warsaw 1944"
Learn MoreTo commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Capture of Warsaw by Soviet forces, we reached out to Alexandra Richie, D.Phil, to shed light on this event.
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Mail Call: Wendell Wiley Wolfenbarger, January 4-18, 1945
Learn MoreIn 1944 and 1945, postal worker turned soldier Wendell Wiley Wolfenbarger wrote his wife Ruby and children frequent letters. Sometimes they were postcards, sometimes V-mails, and others were written "sitting on a box by a wood fire, outside of course, writing on my knee."
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Equipment Ace: Ed Sabo's Helmet
Learn MoreA look at Private First Class Ed Sabo's wartime experiences, plus a curious case of a possibly misidentified helmet.
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The Malmedy Massacre
Learn MoreHitler had from the beginning posited the war effort as presenting only two possible outcomes: total victory or absolute defeat.
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Organizing Genocide: Theodor Dannecker, Eichmann's Deportation Specialist
Learn MoreTheodor Dannecker helped Adolf Eichmann administer a continent-wide genocide.
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Mail Call: Wendell Wiley Wolfenbarger, January 1, 1945
Learn MoreIn 1944 and 1945, postal worker turned soldier, Wendell Wiley Wolfenbarger, wrote his wife Ruby and children frequent letters. Sometimes they were postcards, sometimes V-mails, and others were written "sitting on a box by a wood fire, outside of course, writing on my knee."