World War II

As part of our Momentos Musicales series, KPAC's James Baker looks at the way the Good Neighbor policy of the United States helped foster musical development in the 1940s that introduced Latin American music to the U.S.

George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.

Adolf Hitler commissioned filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to make propaganda about Nazi Germany. She lived to be 101 years old and denied knowing about the Holocaust.

Japan marks 80 years since the U.S.'s World War II nuclear attack on Hiroshima. The number of atomic bomb survivors is dwindling, as wars and global instability pose a growing challenge to Japan's pacifists.

It tells the story of a battle over the racism some of the servicemen brought with them to England.

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it."

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for decades. Just two of the 855 women are believed to be alive for the ceremony.

The Battle of Iwo Jima cost nearly 7000 Americans their lives. This weekend, the National Museum of the Pacific War honors those who fought.

The Library of Congress preserved recordings from Marine Corp combat correspondents at Iwo Jima that included interviews with soldiers, music and the sounds of war.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators say a lack of oversight and administrative risk controls were among the causes for a 2022 mid-air collision in Dallas.