When Yoshie Shiratori was locked up in Japan's notorious Abashiri prison in 1943, the guards were well aware of his ...

As World War II intensified and the U.S. remained officially neutral, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is believed to have sought a way to justify American entry into the conflict. By November 1941, ...

Excerpt: Rare World War II maps reveal Japan's Pearl Harbor strategy. On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, ...

Museum visitors can take a look into the cramped nose of a bomber at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

PRINCETON – A West Virginia museum overflowing with artifacts honoring the veterans who served their country from the Civil ...