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5:10
From Luverne to Mobile, Americans pray and wait for word of the D-Day invasion.
1:42
Luverne fighter pilot Quentin Aanenson recalls the first time he knew he had killed men.
1:26
Future Senator Daniel Inouye recalls a surrendering German soldier and a split-second reaction.
2:47
Future U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye watched Japanese planes streak overhead on Dec. 7, 1941.
8:41
Fighting in WWII Europe, Joseph Medicine Crow completed the four deeds of a Crow war chief.
12:43
WWII turned Mobile, Alabama, into a boomtown as 150,000 newcomers arrived for defense jobs.
11:23
Feb. 19, 1945: Marines storm Iwo Jima, where 21,000 Japanese defenders wait underground.
5:52
On the Anzio front, Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo wrote home about pork chops, never the fighting.
5:35
Between 50 and 60 million people died in World War II. This is how The War begins.
1:24
A telegram, a father's walk home and a halted dance: Luverne mourns a Marine killed on Saipan.
9:56
May 25, 1943, white workers riot after 12 Black workers are promoted to welder in Mobile, Alabama.
1:50
"We loved every single bite." Ray Leopold remembers his chocolate-covered roast beef.
