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Wartime Piano Happy Hour

04/08/2022 | 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

After your Museum visit, bring together us in the Higgins Hotel for a casual performance of wartime piano music!

Wartime Pianoforte Happy Hour

04/15/2022 | 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Later your Museum visit, join usa in BB'south Stage Door Canteen for a casual operation of wartime pianoforte music!

  • "Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story"

    Join united states of america for a webinar last our Women's History Month programming discussing a pioneer in American aviation.

  • Nosotros Can Do Information technology!: Female person Achievements in the Workplace Since World War II

    Join The National WWII Museum equally we pay tribute to these women and commemorate National Rosie the Riveter Day by hearing from local, modern-mean solar day trailblazers nearly their experiences in the workforce, with a historical overview given past Kim Guise, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Services.

  • The Existent Epitome of War: Steichen and Ford in the Pacific Opening Reception

    Bring together showroom curator Josh Schick every bit he introduces and discusses the procedure of creating the Museum's newest special exhibition,The Real Epitome of War: Steichen and Ford in the Pacific—on display in the Museum'south Senator John Alario, Jr. Special Exhibition Hall from March 17, 2022, to Jan 3, 2023.

  • Lunchbox Lecture: More Just Hemingway'south Married woman: The Wartime Journalism of Martha Gellhorn

    Many may know Martha Gellhorn as one of the many wives of fellow journalist and literary giant, Ernest Hemingway; however, she was so much more. Although just a budding journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Gellhorn would subsequently witness and cover many pivotal moments of World War 2 and the rest of the 20th century.

  • The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion: The African American Heroes of the D-Twenty-four hours Invasion

    Students will acquire about the brave men of the 320th Barrage Airship Battalion and their boggling mission to help protect The states soldiers during the D-Day Invasions on June half-dozen, 1944.

  • Lunchbox Lecture: "Siren of the Resistance: the Artistry and Espionage of Josephine Baker"

    In this lecture, hear Historian Dr. Kristen D. Burton, Lecturer of US History at The University of Alberta, delve into the life, artistry, and espionage of a truthful icon of the generation.

  • Decade later Defeat: Nippon, 1945-1955

    One of the country's leading regime on post-1945 Nippon joins an Institute historian to talk over this crucial time in Japanese history.

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Commemoration Ceremony

    Join us for an evening of remembrance and reflection with Holocaust survivor Dori Katz, as she reflects on her feel in Kingdom of belgium during the Holocaust from a hidden child's perspective.

  • Lunchbox Lecture: The 102nd Cavalry: From Omaha Beach to Paris and Across

    The 102nd Cavalry was a New Jersey Regular army National Guard unit that was activated and mechanized but prior to America's entry into Earth War Ii.

  • Meet the Author "Bound By State of war: How the United States and the Philippines Congenital America'southward Outset Pacific Century"

    Join us for the last upshot of our 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor programming, a discussion that covers a sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines among a century of Pacific warfare.

  • Pearl Harbor: The Aftermath

    A panel word of historians from members of The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy in The National WWII Museum'due south US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center

  • Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony

    Early on December vii, 1941, citizens and servicemembers alike in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, faced terror as Japanese planes rained fire on the island in a stunning surprise assail. The assault quickly plunged the United States into a world-irresolute war. Each twelvemonth, The National WWII Museum commemorates those who lost their lives on that fateful Dec day.

  • Run into the Author "Churchill: Primary and Commander--Winston Churchill at War, 1895-1945"

    British author and historian Anthony Tucker-Jones comes to talk over his latest work on one of the giants of history, Winston Churchill, with the Museum'southward own Dr. Rob Citino. Presented equally The Orlin Russell Corey Memorial Lecture, in Partnership with the Churchill Society of New Orleans.

  • Lunchbox Lecture: The Raid at Pearl Harbor

    While US strategy in 1941 was largely focused on the war in Europe, the bold carrier raid seized the initiative confronting increasing US pressure over Japan's ongoing war in Communist china. Captain Rick Jacobs volition talk over the events of that terrible, heroic day—from the opening of Nihon by Commodore Mathew Perry in the 1850'due south through the devastation at Pearl Harbor on December vii.

  • Meet the Author: "Dear Bob...: Bob Promise's Wartime Correspondence with the One thousand.I.s of World War Two"

    Bring together us live and in person for a Veterans Solar day Meet the Author event featuring a panel discussion withDear Bob… author Martha Bolton, Bob Hope's daughter Linda Hope, and Senior Curator Kim Guise.

  • Lunchbox Lecture--Defining Patriotism: Native Military machine Figures & the Long Fight for Equality

    This lecture volition explore how the history of Native military service illustrates Native struggles for equality, as well equally the contradictions and ironies of how white Americans viewed Native military service and citizenship.

  • Mark Gordon Hazard, 79th Infantry Division

    Mark Hazard discusses a patrol he led behind German lines just before the assault on Hagenau with the objective of capturing a German soldier to interrogate for information about enemy strength in the area.

  • Benjamin Carson, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion

    Benjamin Carson talks well-nigh volunteering for the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion and the brutally realistic training they received in San Diego to set up for combat in the Pacific.

  • Jack Glass, USS Enterprise (CV-6)

    Jack Glass describes his experiences aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.

  • Frank Buschmeier, 100th Bomb Group

    Frank Buschmeier discusses his capture and subsequent imprisonment after his B-17 was shot down during a mission to Merseberg, Frg in July 1944.

  • James "Equus caballus Collar" Smith, 1st Marine Raider Battalion

    James "Horse Neckband" Smith describes his experiences during the Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal in September 1942.

  • Walter Jacobs, 77th Infantry Partition

    Walter Jacobs talks about encountering a wounded Japanese soldier during the fighting on Ie Shima and how he believes that his sparing of an enemy soldier's life resulted in him surviving the fighting at that place and afterward on Okinawa.

  • Florence Reynolds, WASP

    Florence Reynolds describes a negative encounter she had with an Army Air Forces maintenance officer when she questioned the status of an shipping she was ordered to fly.

  • William S. Jones, 7th Infantry Partition, Attu

    William S. Jones describes his experiences during the fight to recapture Attu in the Aleutian Islands in May 1943.

  • Mike "Fe Mike" Mervosh, 4th Marine Sectionalization

    Mike Mervosh describes his feel with the flag raising on Iwo Jima.

  • Herbert Helibrun, 301st Flop Group

    Herbert Heilbrun describes the Christmas 1944 mission he took part in to flop the oil refineries at Brux, Czechoslovakia and how well defended the surface area was.

  • Stanley Wolczyk, 7th Infantry Division, Attu

    Stanley Wolczyk discusses his experiences on Attu in May 1943 and being wounded late in the fight, a wound which ended his Army service.

  • Charles McGee, 332nd Fighter Grouping

    Charles McGee discusses flying bomber escort for 15th Air Force heavy bombardment groups and downing a High german Focke Wulf Fw 190 during i of those missions.

  • George Peto, 1st Marine Sectionalization

    George Peto describes an uphill assail he took office in on Okinawa that ended upward being his proudest mean solar day in the Marine Corps, despite the tremendous casualties his visitor suffered.

  • Maynard David, 504th Bomb Group

    Maynard David talks near a particularly harrowing mission he and his coiffure flew to Tokyo, Nippon in May 1945.

  • Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, Navigator on the Enola Gay

    Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, navigator on the Enola Gay, describes arriving at Wendover Field, Utah and figuring out that he would exist taking part in a mission to drop an atomic bomb.

  • Joseph Sasser, 50th Engineers, Attu

    Joseph Sasser discusses his experiences on Engineer Hill during the final hours of the Battle of Attu in May 1943.

A LIMITED PODCAST Series FROM THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM

"To The Best of My Power"

Season two: Episode ix – 33 Months

Rising racial tensions on the westward declension of the The states came to a head afterward the surprise assault on Pearl Harbor, and a mandatory forced evacuation was carried out, sending Japanese Americans to incarceration camps. The consequence echoed for decades afterwards across multiple presidential administrations in the courts, politics, and minds of those wrongfully incarcerated.

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