A Home Front worker, featured in the traveling exhibit The Pelican State Goes to War, visits The National WWII Museum. 

Hear about four unique items from our Collection that saw action.

On July 9, The National WWII Museum’s patrol torpedo (PT) boat 305 will return to her permanent home on the Museum’s campus in the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion (KRP), providing an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of Museum visitors each year to observe the fully restored vessel up close and learn of her wartime crew members and tours of duty.

The Battle of Manila and the Destruction of the Pearl of the Orient

A dozen years after the opening of the institution that would become The National WWII Museum, President and CEO Nick Mueller spoke to a Junior Achievement Hall of Fame banquet on “The American Spirit: What Does It Mean?”