Must-reads of 2021 picked by historians and scholars in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

Yoshikuni Igarashi examines the impact of World War II and Japan’s defeat on postwar Japanese memory.

Veterans Day profile of Pearl Harbor Survivor and friend of the Museum Armando “Chick” Galella.

On December 7, 1941, Kermit Tyler was called about aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor and told the radar tech not to worry about it. His reply has been debated for the past 80 years.

This article looks at the experiences of four Black GIs—two in the European theater and two in the Pacific theater—in the Quartermaster Corps, the Army’s chief logistics branch.

Seventy-five years ago, journalist John Hersey’s article “Hiroshima” forever changed how Americans viewed the atomic attack on Japan.

This little-known aircraft was part of the last air battle of World War II.

“As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn’t been touched by the war and blew it to hell.” - Bob Hope, Operation Crossroads by Jonathan M. Weisgall, Naval Institute Press, 1994.

In WWII’s aftermath, July 4 also became Independence Day for the Philippines in 1946.

In July 1946, the fourth and fifth atomic bombs to explode tore into a fleet of 84 ships anchored at Bikini Atoll in the name of science.

Jack Brukman’s journey through war: from the physical onset on Saipan to the continuous mental onslaught at home.

The “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” 77 American military nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines, provided lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps where they were held from 1942-1945.