Deciphering the telegram
In January 1917 the United States was neutral in the European War that would eventually be called World War I. An intercepted telegram between Germany and Mexico...
Enemy ears are listening
In this World War II poster, America’s enemies—Mussolini, Hirohito, and Hitler—cup their ears to listen intently. During the war, the Government alerted...
Engine check
Crewmembers in the engine room of a World War I oil-burning German submarine are checking their equipment.
Escaped!
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Eduard Isaacs wrote this report to the Secretary of the Navy in November 1918, describing how he escaped from German imprisonment after his ship...
Flying deep into Germany
This chart outlines the routes to and from the targets of the first American deep-penetration bombing raid of World War II: the ball-bearing factories of Schweinfurt...
Freed but not saved
On April 28, 1945, the Army Signal Corps photographed these internees at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany 13 days after their liberation by the...
Gathering secrets of the German submarines
In May 1918, the German submarine U-90 attacked and sank the U.S.S. President Lincoln. Lieutenant Edouard V.M. Isaacs was captured and taken prisoner. While a...