A bride in Tule
This bride, photographed by Francis Stewart a few days before her wedding on September 10, 1942, was interred at Tule Lake Relocation Center, outside Newell,...
A Day of Infamy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address to Congress on December 8, 1941, his famous “Day of Infamy” speech, was a call to arms. One day after the Japanese...
A day that will live in infamy
After Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared before Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Japan. This is...
A fault on the line
In August 1944, Allied troops landed in the South of France during Operation Dragoon. In preparation for the landings, the Allies targeted transportation hubs to...
"A fearless man"
Private First Class Carl B. Bentley described the actions of Private First Class Desmond Doss in April and May, 1945. Doss, an unarmed medic serving on Okinawa,...
A step toward war?
Pastor Lee A. Howe of the Oneida Baptist Church, of Oneida, New York, wrote to Senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee objecting to...
Aiding the wounded
On June 15, 1945, members of the medical corps carry to safety a soldier who was wounded on Okinawa’s front lines.