World War II

"As a kid it was more of something that I used that I thought was pretty neat. But it was always in the back of my mind that it was his."

A man grapples with his mother's refusal to accept the death of his father, who died as a soldier in World War II — a loss that shaped his view on war.

D-Day, June 6, 1944. Waiting in the waters of Omaha Beach, a soldier asks his commanding officer what's on his mind.

She always saw her husband as a hero, though it wasn’t until the end of his life that she would finally learn of his war experiences in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

After surviving World War II, soldiers returned to civilian life forever changed — their war experiences inevitably impacting their communities and the next generation.

Irja Higginbotham, interviewed by her son Thomas, shares her story of coming from war-torn Finland to the U.S.

The power and destructiveness of nuclear energy has been in the spotlight since the film "Oppenheimer" was released in July. It is in focus again this week with the anniversaries of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II.

Ira Hayes has been commemorated in movies and songs, but his actual life after WWII is still shrouded in a lot of mystery.

Knowing the inevitability of being drafted, this young farmer enrolled in the Navy with a plan to stay alive — one that stationed him among the dead.

In her book The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War, USU History Professor Susan Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object – the civilian gas mask.