How do we define when an event actually took place? When did the event become inevitable?

Time uncoils on a Museum travel tour with WWII veterans.

Read a Merchant Mariner's personal account of 20 days at sea after a Japanese submarine attack on the Indian Ocean. 

The US Army is getting back to its roots with a throwback uniform.

After a bloody first day of fighting, Japanese and American battleships slugged out one of World War II's most brutal battles. 

Does World War II have a War and Peace? Novels by Herman Wouk and Vasily Grossman plunge deep into the darkest history of the 20th century. 

He was a career Marine and veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima. His heroics in World War II will never be forgotten.

Robert M. Citino, PhD, examines the concluding weeks of a pivotal battle in the Pacific theater.

James Hornfischer, author of Neptune’s Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal, explores the ferocious sea battles surrounding the Solomon Islands during the Guadalcanal campaign.

Despite the lack of proper diet and medical supplies, the proliferation of tropical disease, constant enemy bombardments, and the threat of being overrun by a fanatical enemy, American forces held on to “The Island of Death.”

Richard Frank, author of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, explores the strategies by the Japanese occupiers and American invaders during the Battle of Guadalcanal. 

As the premiere episode of the new PBS documentary miniseries shows, America’s involvement in Vietnam can be tracked back to World War II.