The National WWII Museum in New Orleans launches mymemorialday.org to remind Americans of the meaning behind Memorial Day.
The National WWII Museum opens the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion on June 4, 2011.
The National World War II Museum hosts '40s themed talent competition at the Stage Door Canteen
The National WWII Museum is gifted with a portion of the Atlantic Wall from the Utah Beach Museum in France. The three pieces of the wall, an artifact from the D-Day invasion, will be on display indefinitely at the New Orleans museum.
Through the story of a young Cuban boxer who died trying to gain employment on the naval base, this talk will explore the consequences of GTMO’s rapid growth on the local community of Guantánamo, Cuba, and the competition for jobs on the base during World War II.
After your Museum visit, join us in BB’s Stage Door Canteen for a casual performance of wartime piano music!
S. Neil Fujita was an American citizen born to parents of Japanese American ancestry. Like more than 120,000 other Japanese Americans, Fujita and his family were forcibly relocated and incarcerated during World War II.