Personal correspondence offers an intimate glimpse of a world at war.

In William Shirer's war memoir, two foreign correspondents walk in a Berlin park and share a farewell drink as a global inferno nears ignition.  

Watching the Museum's P-40 Warhawk land in Campaigns of Courage.  

The Oscars host for the ages presided over the 1943 ceremony. 

A passage from William Shirer's memoir of The Nightmare Years bears witness to the stark brutality of 1940 Europe. 

A captured fighter pilot's escape attempts were as numerous as they were brazen. 

Find out how the Pearl Harbor attacks influenced this fire truck, which is the focus for Drafts for Crafts 2018.

The battle that defined for the American Army the tough realities of what war with the German army truly meant.

Learn more about the Medal of Honor recipient and Museum friend.  
 

Meet America's oldest National Park Ranger—a wartime Home Front worker profiled in the Museum's 2018 Electronic Field Trip about African American Experiences in World War II. 

Two months before Pearl Harbor, a sailor became Louisiana's first fatality in World War II.  

Starlet Alma Carroll barnstormed the country to raise money for the war effort with Bob Hope, Cary Grant, Laurel and Hardy, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Crosby, and others.