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The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II. Founded in 2000, it was later designated by the U.S. Congress as America's official National WWII Museum in 2004. [2] The museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum, [3] as part of the Smithsonian Institution's outreach program. [4]
The National WWII Museum; New Jersey Naval Museum; P. Polish Home Army Museum, Orchard Lake, Michigan; S. Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum; Silent Wings ...
The International Museum of World War II was a nonprofit museum devoted to World War II located in Natick, Massachusetts, a few miles west of Boston.It was formed over a period of more than 50 years by its founder, Kenneth W. Rendell, one of the world's premier dealers in autographs, letters and manuscripts, [1] who has earned international renown as an authenticator of historic artifacts. [2]
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
The General George S. Patton Memorial Museum, in Chiriaco Summit, California, is a museum erected in tribute to General George S. Patton on the site of the entrance of Camp Young, part of the Desert Training Center of World War II.
The World War II Memorial is a national memorial in the United States [1] [2] ... The National WWII Museum, in New Orleans; Architecture of Washington, D.C. Notes
Sherman Tank of Polish I Corps fighting in Western Europe during WWII Norden M2WS bombsight Interior of the museum. The Museum of the Second World War (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej) is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War.
During World War II, Evansville was the site of a Republic Aviation factory that built Republic P-47 Thunderbolts. [1]Plans to obtain an aircraft for display in the city began as early as 1986, when a former supervisor at the plant, Frank Whetsel, purchased the wreckage of a P-47D, serial number 42-8320, that had crashed in Lake Kerr in Florida and founded the P-47 Heritage Commission.