Marvin Sanders at war
During World War II, Fireman First Class Marvin Sanders of the U.S. Coast Guard served in the Pacific on an Army repair ship. He was one of more than 5,000 African...
Mobile gas chambers
This is one of a series of communications on the problems with “S-Wagons,” written by Dr. August Becker, who made an inspection trip through Eastern Europe to...
My Colonel
In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, Henri Berger wrote to American Colonel William Bray for help. Mr. Berger's parents were killed at the Auschwitz...
Navajos fighting the Japanese
Native American Marines pose for the camera while serving on the Pacific island of Bougainville in December, 1943.
No drill
This is the Boston Naval Yard’s copy of a December 7, 1941, dispatch from the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific, which announced the surprise Japanese attack on...
Nurses across the Rhine
These women, members of the 51st U.S. Army Field Hospital, were the first U.S. Army nurses to cross the Rhine River in Germany on March 14, 1945.
OK to fly
This World War II photograph, taken about September 1944, shows Captain Andrew D. Turner of Washington, DC, in his P-51C fighter aircraft. Turner graduated from...