"Fighting for the Right to Fight"
More than 40,000 students across the country participated in the Museum's live interactive Electronic Field Trip.
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The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion: The African American Heroes of the D-Day Invasion
Students will learn about the brave men of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion and their extraordinary mission to help protect US soldiers during the D-Day Invasions on June 6, 1944.
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All the Way: the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion Cracks Germany's Siegfried Line, 1945
The African American 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion's aggressive assault across Germany's Siegfried Line in 1945 earned the respect and camaraderie of white GIs in the front lines.
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Major Charles L. Thomas and the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion
The African American 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion earned a Presidential Unit Citation for its heroic stand in France in December 1944, and a Medal of Honor in 1980 posthumously awarded to Major Charles Thomas.
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Remembering Tuskegee Airman Roscoe C. Brown Jr.
A restored P-51 Mustang in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center is the Museum's tribute to a pioneering aviator.
Past Events
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"Fly"
02/25/2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:45 PMFly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
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"Fly"
02/24/2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:45 PMFly tells the story of four African American Tuskegee Airmen and their fight on two fronts to achieve Double Victory during World War II.
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The Gen. Raymond E. Mason Distinguished Lecture Series on World War II--"Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military" by Thomas Guglielmo, PhD
02/23/2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMAmerica's WWII military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.
Divisions offers a decidedly different view.
