• Campaigns of Courage: European and Pacific Theaters, the newest pavilion on the campus of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, opens tomorrow, December 13, 2014, with the dedication of its first-floor exhibition: Road to Berlin: European Theater Galleries. Road to Tokyo: Pacific Theater Galleries will open on the second floor in December 2015.
  • The Nat’l WWII Museum’s new Battle of the Bulge gallery immerses visitors in the frozen Ardennes forest, where citizen soldiers—caught off guard and without proper gear—defended their battered line against Hitler’s final surge. A video and running audio of soldiers’ voices evokes the chaos and danger of this costly battle.
  • Visitors will explore a virtual mission briefing, aircraft guide, and flight simulator in the Air War Gallery, at The Nat’l WWII Museum’s Road to Berlin exhibit. Displays of photos, artifacts, and nostalgic pinups complete the picture of daily life for America’s Bomber Boys, as planes—seen through a bomb-torn corrugate roof—fly overhead.
  • Within The National WWII Museum’s Road to Berlin: European Theater Galleries, The Desert War gallery takes visitors into Northern Africa—a strategic first front that proved a valuable training ground for inexperienced citizen soldiers. Front and center is the M2A1 105mm Howitzer that became an invaluable artillery asset.