NEW ORLEANS (March 28, 2007) – In an era when most combat boats and ships were made of steel, wooden combat vessels represented something...

  NEW ORLEANS (February 16, 2009) – For the first time since 2004, Louisiana students will join those in 48 other states, and the Di...

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.

Opening on March 4, 2021, SOLDIER | ARTIST: Trench Art in World War II,  the newest special exhibit at The National WWII Museum, explores the military pastime known as “trench art”—the creation of art, souvenirs and tools out of discarded materials and the waste of war.

Military service during World War II and racial integration in the armed forces heightened expectations for social progress.