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Best of WWII Public Programs: Post-World War II
Even though the fighting ended in Europe with VE-Day on May 8, 1945, the effects of the war and its legacies continue up to this day.
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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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Do Your Part! Knit Your Bit and COVID-19
With the onset of COVID-19, the American public is facing an invisible enemy that is changing whole aspects of our lives.
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America's last WWII 'ace' pilot dies at 103
Donald McPherson earned the Congressional Gold Medal and three Distinguished Flying Crosses during his service as a US Navy Pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex in the final battles of World War II.
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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.
Past Events
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Meet the Author--"The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil"
03/10/2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PMJoin us for an evening of fascinating discussion about one of the most important, yet least known, Nazi war criminals.
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Lunchbox Lecture: More than Just Hemingway's Wife: The Wartime Journalism of Martha Gellhorn
03/09/2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMMany may know Martha Gellhorn as one of the many wives of fellow journalist and literary giant, Ernest Hemingway; however, she was so much more. Although just a budding journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Gellhorn would later witness and cover many pivotal moments of World War II and the rest of the 20th century.
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Meet the Author--Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II
02/17/2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMThe Museum is proud to feature one of its own, Dr. Steph Hinnershitz, to discuss her recently released book Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, which places the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II within a history of US prison labor and exploitation.
