LOUISIANA MEMORIAL PAVILION:

The Louisiana Memorial Pavilion showcases our macro-artifact collection, essential tools of the war effort. These artifacts include two famous Higgins landing craft, an LCP(L) and an LCVP. More than 20,000 boats, used in all the amphibious landings of World War II, were designed and built in New Orleans. General Eisenhower credited these boats and Andrew Jackson Higgins with winning the war for the Allies. Other macro-artifacts featured in the rotating exhibits in the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion include a Sherman tank, numerous jeeps, a halftrack, and a WC-54 ambulance. The aircraft collection in the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion includes a C-47, an SBD Dauntless, a Spitfire, and a Bf109.