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.
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A 'Gallant Stand' at Monte Battaglia: Manuel V. Mendoza’s Medal of Honor
For what he did on October 4, 1944, Staff Sergeant Manuel V. Mendoza garnered a special place in the history of Nazi Germany’s defeat.
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Camp Camo
(Grades 5 & 6)06/08/2026 - 06/12/2026 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMDiscover how the different branches of the US Armed Forces have impacted World War II and history up to today at Camp Camo. This session is for children entering grades 5 and 6.
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Camp Camo
(Grades 3 & 4)06/15/2026 - 06/19/2026 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PMDiscover how the different branches of the US Armed Forces have impacted World War II and history up to today at Camp Camo. This session is for children entering grades 3 and 4.
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Becoming the Arsenal of Democracy
Early on in World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, one of Adolf Hitler’s top lieutenants, said that Americans could only make refrigerators and razor blades—they would never be able to produce the military equipment and supplies necessary to defeat Nazi Germany. Hitler took the same view in his public speeches, but privately he knew the clock was ticking. Germany would have to achieve victory fast, before American production had time to ramp up.
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Music at the Museum: Violins of Hope
01/28/2023 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PMJoin The National WWII Museum and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for a once-in-a-lifetime performance on Saturday, January 28, 2023, in US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.
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Violins of Hope: New Orleans
01/24/2023 - 01/28/2023Music brings together people of all backgrounds, unifying them for the measures and notes of a song. Music is also an especially powerful educational tool—something visitors to The National WWII Museum will experience firsthand when the Violins of Hope arrive in New Orleans in January 2023. Violins of Hope is a project of concerts based on a private collection of violins, violas, and cellos all collected since the end of World War II, many of which belonged to Jews before and during the war.
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"Music and the Holocaust"
01/27/2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMJoin The National WWII Museum along with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) for this webinar on International Holocaust Remembrance Day as we discuss the importance of music during the Holocaust, as well as Violins of Hope, a private collection of violins that belonged to many Jewish people during World War II.
