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Family Research Guide
A personal quest for a grandfather's WWII service history inspired a new Museum resource for families researching a veteran.
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History Through the Viewfinder
A haunting visit to Mulberry "B" on Gold beach.
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History Through the Viewfinder
A WWII memorial in Volgograd stands as a testament to memory, innocence, and the evil of war.
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History Through the Viewfinder
Stalingrad 1942: Control of the Volga by an invader could mean the fatal division of the Soviet Union.
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History Through the Viewfinder
Seventy-five years after the Germans began their attack on Stalingrad, a look at the Volga from atop Mamayev Kurgan.
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The Vietnam War
As the premiere episode of the new PBS documentary miniseries shows, America’s involvement in Vietnam can be tracked back to World War II.
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Fighting for the Right to Fight
The traveling exhibit tells the story of how World War II became the major catalyst in the 20th century for African Americans seeking change in their fortunes, both on the Home Front and in the American military.
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Memory and Understanding
The past, present, and future of The National WWII Museum's collection of oral histories.
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Friction
In a global conflict of exploding bombs and shells—tens of millions of them on land, sea, and in the air—setting one off in Hitler's headquarters might seem like the simplest thing in the world.
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Guadalcanal Gallery Tour
Tour Road to Tokyo's Guadalcanal gallery with Keith Huxen, PhD, Senior Director of Research and History in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Guadalcanal Diary
Richard Tregaskis’s account of the first seven weeks of fighting is a classic of war literature.
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War on a Shoestring: The Fight for Guadalcanal
The August 1942 landing on Guadalcanal was a colossal improvisation, concocted on the fly to take advantage of a recent dramatic turn in the Pacific war.