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"Pvt. Joe Louis Says - We're Going to do our part . . . and we'll win because we're on God's side"

Poster showing heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis charging with bayoneted rifle.

Letter, Alexander Frieder to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945

In this letter, Dwight D. Eisenhower's old friend, Alexander Frieder, wrote that he hoped Eisenhower would not forgot German war crimes in the…

Leon Frank Jenkins Collection

Talks about Jenkins's deployment during the summer of 1942

Showcases combat footage from several areas, including the Soviet advance.

Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right

Depicts the USS California beginning to sink shortly after taking heavy fire from the surprise attack bombings in Pearl Harbor by Japan.

Aerial photograph, taken by a Japanese pilot, of the destruction of Pearl Harbor, Japanese bomber in lower right foreground

Photo depicts a Japanese fighter plane descending upon Pearl Harbor amidst the surprise attack by the Japanese army upon Pearl Harbor during World War…

Let There Be Light—known to the U.S. Army as PMF 5019—is a documentary film directed by American filmmaker John Huston (1906–1987). It was the last in…

Reel 1 stresses the emotional strain of combat, showing battle scenes. Psychoneurotics await evacuation; a psychiatrist interviews a soldier; and men…

Soldier on B-24 Liberator plane

Soldier on B-24 Liberator plane

M4 Tanks Being Loaded onto Liberty Ship

"Tanks, Medium, M4A3, being loaded in Hatch #2 on the Liberty Ship Daniel H. Lownsdale (HR-84) docked at Pier A, Inshore, Sewall Point, United…