I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco . . .

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.