Information and resources for students, teachers, history enthusiasts, scholars, and others, including lesson plans, guides to WWII military terminology, and general help with using this …

Still, answers to other questions in these same surveys reveal that postwar planners understood well the changed nature of the World War II military force: most soldiers, including African …

World War II has been portrayed as a war to save democracy from the clutch of despotism. Yet the drive to institute a draft in the summer of 1940 was hardly a model case study in …

The citizen-soldier of World War II rarely felt the esprit de corps once used to motivate militaries from the Napoleonic armies to the World War I forces that clashed in Flanders. Enlisted …

The American Soldier in World War II is a collaborative enterprise, based at Virginia Tech. This project has been made possible by a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities …

Beyond these factors, the American way of war featured the ability to project power across vast distances. Logistics and transportation were strong suits of the American armed forces; no …

Readers exploring The American Soldier in World War II collection should bear in mind tensions between the army’s requirements and people’s desires. The army’s industrial approach did not …

Upon induction, America’s World War II troops entered a military world rife with color lines—and rife with efforts to resist and rewrite them. The latter succeeded at making changes to the …

The global nature of World War II saw American troops deployed around the world in the fight against fascism. While the bulk of US troops fought the enemy with their feet firmly planted on …

The welfare and recreation programs established in the World War II US Army, and continued in the post-war period, had one immediate goal: to keep soldiers as fit for combat as …