"The United States is now at war . . . . We are here tonight to testify ... While the Yard was given over to the military, Kirkland and Eliot Houses became the headquaters for a new Navy program ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture. According to a report commissioned ...

Unlike the farm policies that were implemented in the first farm bills during the 1930’s, which encouraged farmers to reduce their production ... the course of World War II, including hundreds ...

Ford is known for making durable cars, trucks, and SUVs. During World War II, the company also produced some tanks that were critical to the allied effort.

(In the 1950s, after World War II was complete, these are the ten guns that revolutionized U.S. military power.) Of course, every country was developing and making their own weapons during that time.

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...