The National World War II Museum releases a letter from its archives that Major Dick Winters had written to Museum founder and author of "Band of Brothers" Stephen Ambrose.
“As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn’t been touched by the war and blew it to hell.” - Bob Hope, Operation Crossroads by Jonathan M. Weisgall, Naval Institute Press, 1994.
New York’s Peter and Mary Kalikow – the first donors in the history of The National D-Day Museum – have pledged an additional $1 million to the institution now known as The National WWII Museum to support its $400 million Road to Victory Capital Campaign, which funds the campus expansion.
The National WWII Museum recorded a record-breaking month in March 2016 as the institution welcomed 81,703 visitors, smashing the previous monthly record of 73,449. The Museum also welcomed its five millionth visitor on March 19. The visitation milestones come shortly after the institution opened another major exhibit, Road to Tokyo: Pacific Theater Galleries.
Make and take your own crystal radio and produce a WWII-era radio comedy using scripts, sound-effects, and music.
Learn how to write humor on any topic with Martha Bolton, who Bob Hope once said “finds fun in the familiar, the mirth in the mundane, the belly laughs in the bellyaches of everyday living.”
Liesl Bradner presents “Snapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern”