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The American automobile industry's greatest contribution to the World War II effort, apart from the sheer scale of its work, was its technical expertise in quantity manufacturing. Automakers refined the smallest details in an item to increase the…

Cpl. Rudolph E. Engstrom rests in a shell hole on Iwo Jima, holding a piece of shrapnel that wounded him.

A diary of the week of DDay

Delegates to the Evian Conference, where the fate of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany was discussed. US delegate Myron Taylor is third from left. France, July 1938.

Detailed map outlining the movements of the US Pacific Fleet of naval vessels the day of the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

American propaganda film on how Germany indoctrinates its children.

- Half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee.
- "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Columbia University Division of War Research…

Women represented approximately one third of the workers at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant during World War II. Women did everything from clerical work in the offices to riveting and welding on the assembly line. Labor shortages made women…

Establishing the Office of Scientific Research and Development