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

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. 

A Museum statement condemning the Pittsburgh shootings. 

A Home Front worker, featured in the traveling exhibit The Pelican State Goes to War, visits The National WWII Museum. 

From gas rationing to gas crisis!

How baseball was almost canceled thanks to a world at 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.

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.

The concluding "room" of FDR’s Washington, DC, memorial underscores a poignant connection to Thomas Jefferson.

Actor Henry Fonda put a successful acting career on hold to serve in the US Navy.

A look into the prolific and meaningful correspondence between Bob Hope and his fans.