Cory Graff, Curator & Restoration Manager at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, describes the search for Captain Lawrence Everett Dickson, a Tuskegee Airman, assigned to the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group. A 2018 search found the crash site of his P-51 Mustang. There crews found fragments of bone and this uniform button. Captain Dickson became the first of 27 Tuskegee Airmen listed as Missing In Action to be found. This is one of the artifacts you can find in the Museum’s final permanent exhibit hall, Liberation Pavilion.

Liberation Pavilion explores the end of World War II, the Holocaust, the postwar years, and how the war continues to impact our lives today.