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10/15/2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMJoin The National WWII Museum for a free student webinar to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and learn more about the ways Hispanic and ...
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1943 Ford-American LaFrance Fire Truck
Find out how the Pearl Harbor attacks influenced this fire truck, which is the focus for Drafts for Crafts 2018.
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Liberation in China and the Pacific
Dr. Rana Mitter depicts how China held a critical role in the Pacific theater during the war as a key ally for the United States. The war's end, however, brought a devastating blow to American diplomacy as China ultimately fell to communism, forever changing the global balance of power in the emerging Cold War.
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Bob Hope at the Museum
A Q&A with daughter Linda Hope explores a legacy of devotion to US troops in World War II and beyond.
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WWII Airmen Killed in Pacific Crash Identified After 80 Years
More than eighty years after the B-24D Liberator named Heaven Can Wait crashed off Awar Point in Papua New Guinea, four of its crew have been accounted for and will finally be returned to the United States.
Past Events
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"Band of Brothers" Reunion Student Panel (In Person)
08/12/2022 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AMThe National WWII Museum invites you and your students to a special event in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.
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Lunchbox Lecture: Mealtime in the Mess Halls: Food in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
08/03/2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PMDuring World War II, 120,000 Japanese Americans attempted to adjust to their lives behind barbed wire at one of 10 incarceration camps—and this included encountering new food served in the mess halls.
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Bob & Dolores Hope Summer Theater Camp: July 11-22
07/11/2022 - 07/22/2022 | 12:00 AMDuring The National WWII Museum's two-week Bob & Dolores Hope Summer Theater Camp, campers become future stars as they learn how BB's Stage Door Canteen at The National WWII Museum puts on a show. Campers, working one-on-one with trained, talented, and friendly Museum professionals in the Museum's state-of-the-art Stage Door Canteen, will be taught the rudiments of stage-craft including opportunities for both on-stage and off-stage roles.