The Allied armies Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section included 27 women and about 320 men during and just after WWII. The Army recently revived the concept, with the first new class of monuments officers graduating in 2022.
Veterans, Holocaust survivors, historians and actor Tom Hanks attended opening ceremonies for the Liberation Pavilion at the National World War II Museum.
A new, permanent addition to the sprawling National WWII Museum in New Orleans is a three-story complex with displays as daunting as a simulated Nazi concentration camp bunk room, and as inspiring as a violin pieced together from scrap wood by an American prisoner of war. The Liberation Pavilion — set to open Friday with ceremonies including around 40 surviving veterans of the war — is ambitious in scope. Its exhibits filling 33,000 square feet (3065.80 square meters) commemorate the end of the war's death and destruction, emphasize its human costs and capture the horror of those who discovered the aftermath of Nazi atrocities.
Four honorees with ties to New Orleans will be honored for their life s work in promoting American ideals at the Congressional Medal of Honor Society s convention here in November. The