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.

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.

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.

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 . . .

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.