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Benedict Arnold
A hero of the Revolutionary War who later betrayed the United States, Arnold became synonymous with the word traitor after he switched sides and fought for the British. -
Mussolini had a penchant for violence even as a youth.
Born on July 29, 1883, Mussolini gained a reputation for bullying and fighting during his childhood. At age 10 he was expelled from a religious boarding school for stabbing a classmate in the hand, and another stabbing incident took place at his next school. He also admitted to knifing a girlfriend in the arm. Meanwhile, he purportedly pinched people at church to make them cry, led gangs of boys on raids of local farmsteads and eventually became adept at dueling with swords. When the New York Ti -
"General MacArthur surveys the beachhead on Leyte Island
soon after American forces swept ashore from a gigantic liberation armada into the central Philippines, at the historic moment when the General made good his promise `I shall return.'" -
Pearl Harber
On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. -
Japan vs U.S.A
Presedent Franklin D. sighns the decleration of war againts Japan -
The Holocaust
From 1941 to 1945, Adolf Hitler's totalitarian Nazi regime murdered some six million European Jews during World War II. -
Remember Dec 7th
. ". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . . Remember Dec. 7th!" Color poster by Allen Saalberg, -
Replica of Fat Man Atomic Bomb
replica of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, a plutonium-implosion bomb nick-named -
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, the Allies invaded Normandy, France, in the largest amphibious assault in history. -
Couple Walk Through Ruins of St. Lo France
A civilian couple walks through ruins of the heavily bombed ruins in the city of St. Lo, France, August 1944 -
D-Day Begins
By ear;y 1944,Hitler faced a new threth. In the west, Alled preperations to invade North West france were coming back for a climax. It was an attack he had long been expecting. -
Conference of the Big Three at Yalta
final plans for the defeat of Germany. Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Josef Stalin. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. president (1933-1945), led the nation through both the Great Depression and World War II. -
General George Patton
General George S. Patton Jr. (1885-1945) distinguished himself as the commanding general of US operations in North Africa. He was an adept strategist at tank warfare, and is well known for his role in the Battle of the Bulge -
World War II Sailors on R&R
World War II sailors enjoy a day out while on leave.
