With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
The location of the invasion is a secret, but battle details are planned and practiced.
First-hand accounts of Japanese preparations on Iwo Jima come from letters General Kuribayashi and others write home.
Hitler orders the destruction of Paris because liberation is near; Paris is free in August 1944.
A new government, loyal to Germany, is set up in Vichy; the film, The Sorrow and the Pity, provides insight into life in occupied France.
Navajos enjoy themselves at fairs and gatherings, usually after the fall harvest.
Concentration camp neighbors are forced to view the camps to prove that it happened.
Louie joins the Army and drops bombs on Japanese from a B-24 bomber. The B-24 history is overwhelming in terms of crashes and loss of life.
Roosevelt orders MacArthur to Australia before the Japanese take over the Philippines.
Twenty-nine Navajos enter the Marines to become code talkers in the Pacific Theater of WWII.
Learn more about eleven of the Red Tail pilots.
The US military segregates black troops from white troops.
Camp Minidoka is in southern Idaho and less well known than other internment camps.
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