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COX 4 Announces TV Schedule for National WW II Museum High School Quiz Bowl
Learn MoreThe National WWII Museum supports the 2011 Cox 4 High School Quiz Bowl competition in New Orleans.
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The National WWII Museum Announces Cast of New Stage Door Canteen Production – On the Air
Learn MoreOn the Air, the newest Stage Door Canteen production, debuts at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans on March 25, 2011.
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Louisiana Students Participate in National Program Shown to Boost School Performance and Job Skills
Learn MoreThe National World War II Museum participates in National History Day and Louisiana History Day.
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National WWII Museum Asks Families to Share the Greatest Love Stories from the ‘Greatest Generation’
Learn MoreThe National World War II Museum launches a new Facebook initiative to celebrate World War II love stories.
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Museum Releases Letter from Major Dick Winters to Stephen Ambrose
Learn MoreThe National World War II Museum releases a letter from its archives that Major Dick Winters had written to Museum founder and author of "Band of Brothers" Stephen Ambrose.
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The National World War II Museum announces its 2011 Student Essay Contest Theme
Learn MoreThe Education Department of The National World War II Museum announces its 2011 Student Essay Contest theme: "Why Should We Remember Pearl Harbor?" Winners get cash prizes. Contest open to high school and middle school students.
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Jingle Belles
Learn MoreNEW ORLEANS, LA (November 24, 2010) –The National World War II Museum is decking the halls and dishing out double rations of Yuletide cheer with a new holiday show debuting November 26 at the Stage Door Canteen featuring the institution’s famed Victory Belles..
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Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War now on display at The National World War II Museum
Learn MoreNovember 24, 2010 (New Orleans, LA) – The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s award-winning exhibition, Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War, is now on display at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans through April 24, 2011.
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The National World War II Museum commemorates Veterans Day with a meeting of generations
Learn MoreOn Veterans Day 2010, New Orleans schoolchildren sat down with World War II vets to ask questions and listen to stories at The National World War II Museum.
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Passing the Torch from the Greatest Generation to the Next
Learn MoreThe National World War II Museum advocates talking to veterans as a way to learn about WWII history this Veterans Day.
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The National WWII Museum dedicates site of upcoming U.S. Freedom Pavilion honoring all branches of service
Learn MoreNational World War II Museum dedicates U.S. Freedom Pavilion
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“Japan Surrenders!”
Learn MoreOn August 14, 1945 the world learned that Japan had surrendered, effectively ending World War II, a war that Americans thought would go on indefinitely. No newsflash in modern history has ever been greeted with such overwhelming celebration. The iconic images of happy throngs holding up the newspapers that would go into countless scrapbooks and frames, the impromptu parades, hands in the air forming a “V” for victory, and the iconic images from Times-Square – including one very famous kiss between a nurse and a sailor.