The Battle of Attu was the only land battle to be fought on North American soil during World War II.

Join James Linn, curator of Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II, as he explores the Museum’s latest special exhibit.

James Hornfischer, author of Neptune’s Inferno: The US Navy at Guadalcanal, explores the ferocious sea battles surrounding the Solomon Islands during the Guadalcanal campaign.

After the war, hundreds of thousands of US warplanes remained—but the military needed only a fraction of them.

Today, The National WWII Museum in New Orleans dedicated the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery, featuring a collection of six fully restored, iconic WWII aircraft suspended in the airspace of US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center.