History Through the Viewfinder
The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Seven.
The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Seven.
The National WWII Museum launches The Classroom Victory Gardens Project website on March 21, 2011.
On an otherwise typical Monday at The National WWII Museum, an all-time record attendance level was set by visitors. The Museum counted 3,556 visitors on Monday, March 11, topping the previous daily attendance record of 3,261 visitors set on Friday, March 27, 2009.
Every aspect of the Japanese surrender on board the USS Missouri was carefully choreographed, with one eye on the past and another on the future.
As American ground forces fought for control of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, Japanese Kamikaze pilots wreaked a grim toll on American naval forces.
Come watch America’s Game live at The National WWII Museum under the WWII warbirds in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center!
Join us for a festive Dinner with a Curator with Senior Curator and Director for Curatorial Affairs Kim Guise as we explore the challenges of wartime mail distribution and the important role Christmas packages and other special deliveries played in lifting the spirits of homesick Americans serving far away from home.
The International Conference on World War II is the premier adult educational event bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss key battles, personalities, strategies, issues, and controversies of the war that changed the world.