I Love Lucy star Desiderio Arnaz (or is that Desi Arnaz?) serves as an example of how names can make researching an individual difficult.

Home after combat, the Memphis Belle's pilot reflects on true heroism.

A historian views the Battle for Moscow in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. 

World War II touched virtually every part of American life, even things so simple as the food people ate, the films they watched, and the music they listened to.

So big was World War II that the second defeat of the German Sixth Army at the “Jassy-Kishinev operation” is now almost forgotten.

The search for the Tuskegee Airman is over.

The young pilot of the Memphis Belle confronts the value of military discipline.

The Civilian Conservation Corps camps: From tree soldiers to real soldiers.

 A tribute to the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at The National WWII Museum.

In a first letter home after his release from a Japanese POW camp, a fighter pilot thanks his family for their prayers.

Hope and death at a concentration camp.

To survive on Guadalcanal, a young Marine must confront war, the dead, and his own culture.