The National WWII Museum mourns the loss of John P. Laborde, who served on General MacArthur's staff during World War II and became one of the Museum's founding Trustees.

In this transcendently powerful adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts the horrors of a rapidly changing world with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination.

When World War II began, entertainer Bob Hope’s career as a major movie star in film and radio was just beginning to take off, having worked his way from jobs as a newsboy, a butcher’s assistant, a shoe salesman, and an amateur boxer to scrape by in the early 1920s.

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.

The National WWII Museum announces Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond conference, a first-of-its-kind educational event examining World War II’s place in public memory and how historians, filmmakers, media, memorials and museums help shape the legacy of the global conflict.