Man and woman sit in front of bookshelves.

Watch “Interview with Aisne-Marne American Cemetery Superintendent Shane Williams.” During ABMC’s most recent  Facebook live chat, ABMC staff member  Sarah Herrmann interviewed Shane Williams, superintendent at Ais

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.

Pencil sketch shows two men firing machine guns.

Before August 1942 the Allies and Japanese had clashed in the air and in the waters of the Pacific, but they had not faced each other in major ground combat. And there had been no major American amphibious landings. That changed in the Solomon Islands.

A soldier, wearing jungle-green colored fatigues, leans against a tree with weapon in hand.

Not long after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the United States perceived a new threat to western Democracy –communist expansion in Asia. The U.S.

Lee, dressed in flying gear, leans against her plane.

As bombing raids over mainland Europe began in the summer of 1942, leadership from the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) also understood the need for air support in the Pacific, and China-Burma-India Theaters of Operations. In July 1942, the USAAF created the China Air Task Force (CATF).

Services of Supply (SOS) soldiers build a locomotive at the assembly plant in St. Nazaire.

When the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, the American Regular Army stood at 130,000, a paltry number of soldiers for a nation that had just entered a global conflict. Gen. John J.

The poster reads "Back Our Girls Over There."

Watch "Selling" World War I to the American Public: How Posters Shaped Public Opinion. During a Facebook Live chat, ABMC staff members Eric Marr and Sarah Herrmann looked at four posters used in the United States during WWI.

A historic photo showing a flying boat on the water outside the factory.

When the United States entered World War I, an independent U.S. Air Force did not exist. Aviation was in its infancy. The U.S. Army and Navy had pursued peacetime American military aviation with no need to support the fledging technology on a massive scale.

Walls of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, millions of Americans served far from home. In the various conflicts, service members fought in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific. They traversed mountains in Italy, France, Korea and Vietnam.