We can see in this passage by British General Frederick Morgan the spirit that ultimately made the Overlord operation an unprecedented historical success.

Field Marshal Lord AlanBrooke's War Diaries, 1939–1945 offers a glimpse into one long day of the exhausting planning for D-Day. 

Join us for a special evening celebrating the launch of a new book about the D-Day invasion by the Museum’s President & CEO Emeritus.

A humble memorial on a sunny Caribbean island reminds the viewer how far world wars can reach.   

"One simply feels a different and unsettling energy on the earth within those barbed wire fences."

Join author Adam Makos with special guest WWII veteran Buck Marsh for a discussion about Makos’s new book Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II.

Arriving in London in January 1944, Eisenhower assembles the strategic and tactical staff that will execute Operation Overlord. 

Join us for an evening of discussion about Hugh Ambrose’s final book, Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition.

Eden McLean, PhD, presents her new book Mussolini’s Children: Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy.

His portrayal in the 1970 film Patton aside, British General Bernard L. Montgomery was a great asset to General Dwight D. Eisenhower in planning for the D-Day invasion. 

A Hollywood holidays classic transports our Senior Historian straight back to wartime.

Sheet music of the popular song, purchased in 1943, is one little girl’s lifetime link to Technical Sergeant Neal K. Moore.