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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WW2EU1_170604_006.JPG: "We will not capitulate -- no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us -- a world in flames." -- Adolf Hitler, March 1945
2. WW2EU1_170604_008.JPG: "Together with other free peoples, we are now fighting to maintain our right to live among our world neighbors in freedom, in common decency, without fear of assault." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. WW2EU1_170604_010.JPG: Stalin
4. WW2EU1_170604_017.JPG: Churchill
5. WW2EU1_170604_023.JPG: Roosevelt
6. WW2EU1_170604_026.JPG: Hitler
7. WW2EU1_170604_031.JPG: Mussolini
8. WW2EU1_170604_036.JPG: The Road to Berlin "Germany First"
9. WW2EU1_170604_043.JPG: Strategic Alliances
10. WW2EU1_170604_045.JPG: Allied Commanders
11. WW2EU1_170604_046.JPG: Dwight D. Eisenhower
12. WW2EU1_170604_049.JPG: Bernard L. Montgomery
13. WW2EU1_170604_052.JPG: Ernest J. King
14. WW2EU1_170604_055.JPG: Harold Alexander
15. WW2EU1_170604_057.JPG: Omar N. Bradley
16. WW2EU1_170604_059.JPG: Georgi Zhukov
17. WW2EU1_170604_061.JPG: Henry Arnold
18. WW2EU1_170604_063.JPG: George C. Marshall
19. WW2EU1_170604_067.JPG: Alan Brooke
20. WW2EU1_170604_070.JPG: The Road to Berlin A Strategist's Nightmare
21. WW2EU1_170604_076.JPG: Axis Commanders
22. WW2EU1_170604_078.JPG: Wilhelm Keitel
23. WW2EU1_170604_084.JPG: Hermann Goering
24. WW2EU1_170604_087.JPG: Heinrich Himmler
25. WW2EU1_170604_095.JPG: Gerd von Rundstedt
26. WW2EU1_170604_098.JPG: Albert Kesselring
27. WW2EU1_170604_101.JPG: Ugo Cavallero
28. WW2EU1_170604_104.JPG: Karl Doenitz
29. WW2EU1_170604_106.JPG: Erwin Rommel
30. WW2EU1_170604_110.JPG: Friedrich Paulus
31. WW2EU1_170604_114.JPG: Deadly Instruments of War
32. WW2EU1_170604_120.JPG: M2A1 105mm Howitzer
33. WW2EU1_170604_123.JPG: The Desert War North Africa: Stemming the Nazi Tide
34. WW2EU1_170604_145.JPG: Learning to Fight the Enemy
35. WW2EU1_170604_148.JPG: Operation Torch
36. WW2EU1_170604_156.JPG: Bitter Setback at Kasserine Pass
37. WW2EU1_170604_160.JPG: Lessons Learned Tactical Focus: Tanks in the Desert
38. WW2EU1_170604_167.JPG: German soldiers in a captured American half-track get a congratulatory visit from Rommel after the Axis victory at Kasserine Pass.
39. WW2EU1_170604_170.JPG: John Waters
40. WW2EU1_170604_175.JPG: Jeep
41. WW2EU1_170604_177.JPG: Advance into Tunisia
42. WW2EU1_170604_181.JPG: Battle of El Guettar The Importance of Victory
43. WW2EU1_170604_192.JPG: Invasion of Sicily Storming Mussolini's Outpost
44. WW2EU1_170604_216.JPG: Invasion of Sicily Operation Husky
45. WW2EU1_170604_218.JPG: 48-star US Flag This American flag flew from vessels commanded by Ted. R. Chrischilles during the war. Ensign Chrischilles, USNR, participated in the invasion of Sicily, earned the Silver Star for bravery under fire during the invasion of Salerno, and later landed on Utah Beach in Normandy.
46. WW2EU1_170604_225.JPG: Invasion Plans from Operation Husky
47. WW2EU1_170604_227.JPG: Invasion Plans from Operation Husky
48. WW2EU1_170604_234.JPG: "Friendly Fire"
49. WW2EU1_170604_238.JPG: Race to Messina
50. WW2EU1_170604_242.JPG: Taking Palermo
51. WW2EU1_170604_246.JPG: George S. Patton, Jr.
52. WW2EU1_170604_253.JPG: Italian Flag
53. WW2EU1_170604_257.JPG: The Italian Campaign A Long, Bloody Slog
54. WW2EU1_170604_283.JPG: Salerno
55. WW2EU1_170604_288.JPG: German Occupation
56. WW2EU1_170604_293.JPG: Nazi Flag captured by SS Cornelius Harnett
57. WW2EU1_170604_303.JPG: Ernie Pyle
58. WW2EU1_170604_305.JPG: Monte Cassino
59. WW2EU1_170604_308.JPG: The historic abbey at Monte Cassino lies in ruins after Allied bombings. The abbey was restored in the 1950s.
60. WW2EU1_170604_312.JPG: Japanese American Soldiers
61. WW2EU1_170604_315.JPG: Fighting up the Peninsula
62. WW2EU1_170604_322.JPG: Congressional Gold Medal
63. WW2EU1_170604_328.JPG: Zippo Lighter A gift to Reed Switzer from Ernie Pyle
64. WW2EU1_170604_334.JPG: Landing at Anzio
65. WW2EU1_170604_339.JPG: Special Operations
66. WW2EU1_170604_345.JPG: US Army-Issue Portable Altar
67. WW2EU1_170604_352.JPG: 4.2-inch Mortar
68. WW2EU1_170604_360.JPG: Liberation of Rome
69. WW2EU1_170604_364.JPG: Fight for the Gothic Line
70. WW2EU1_170604_371.JPG: The Air War Strategy
71. WW2EU1_170604_382.JPG: First Strikes
72. WW2EU1_170604_385.JPG: The Air War Prevailing in the Skies
73. WW2EU1_170604_407.JPG: "We had braved the enemy in his own skies and were alive to tell about it." -- Paul Tibbets, Pilot, US Army Air Forces
74. WW2EU2_170604_006.JPG: AN6519-1 Type B4 "Mae West" Life Jacket Life jackets were standard issue for aircrews flying over water, including bomber crews flying over Europe. Although several designs were adopted during the war, they were collectively known as "Mae Wests" after the iconic American star. The label was credited to flyers of the British Royal Air Force, to whom an amused Mae West wrote, "I have just seen that RAF flyers have a life-saving jacket they call a 'Mae West' because it bulges in all the 'right places.' Well, I consider it a swell honor to have such great guys wrapped up in me, know what I mean?"
75. WW2EU2_170604_020.JPG: Preparing for Overlord
76. WW2EU2_170604_028.JPG: "Hell's Angels" Boeing B-17F
77. WW2EU2_170604_031.JPG: The Air War Air Superiority
78. WW2EU2_170604_038.JPG: A B-17 falls victim to a German Me-262 jet fighter over Germany. The Me-262 outperformed every Allied aircraft then flying, but was produced in limited numbers and arrived too late to alter the war's outcome.
79. WW2EU2_170604_040.JPG: After the introduction of longer ranger fighter escorts, bomber losses plummeted to as low as 1%.
80. WW2EU2_170604_050.JPG: Ration Ticket: American Red Cross ration ticket, good for 5 cents at a snack bar in Italy.
81. WW2EU2_170604_055.JPG: 91st Service Squadron Sign
82. WW2EU2_170604_077.JPG: The Air War A Heavy Price
83. WW2EU2_170604_080.JPG: Deadly Defenses
84. WW2EU2_170604_083.JPG: William Clark Gable
85. WW2EU2_170604_086.JPG: "It had been horrendous. I turned white-headed at the age of twenty-two." -- John H. Luckadoo, Pilot, US Army Air Forces
86. WW2EU2_170604_089.JPG: A Long Thin Line of Anguish
87. WW2EU2_170604_095.JPG: Winston Churchill
88. WW2EU2_170604_097.JPG: Dwight Eisenhower
89. WW2EU2_170604_100.JPG: Anne Frank, June 6 Diary Entry: " 'This is D-Day,' the BBC announced at twelve. 'This is the day.' The invasion has begun. "Is this really the beginning of the long awaited liberation? The liberation we've all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true? Will this year, 1944, bring us victory? We don't know yet. But where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."
90. WW2EU2_170604_102.JPG: "Here in a jumbled row for mile on mile are soldiers' packs. Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand grenades... Here are toothbrushes and razors, and snapshots of families back home staring up at you from the sand." -- Ernie Pyle
91. WW2EU2_170604_104.JPG: Northwestern Europe Invasion and Liberation
92. WW2EU2_170604_120.JPG: Northwestern Europe D-Day
93. WW2EU2_170604_124.JPG: Costly Victory Beyond the Beachhead
94. WW2EU2_170604_134.JPG: Crystal Radio Receiver, Handmade In occupied France, Marie Louise Levi-Menard used this crystal radio receiver, handmade by her cousin, to listen illegally to BBC radio broadcasts.
95. WW2EU2_170604_138.JPG: Marie Louise Levi-Menard
96. WW2EU2_170604_142.JPG: German Hermes Typewriter
97. WW2EU2_170604_145.JPG: Operation Dragoon
98. WW2EU2_170604_148.JPG: The Lost Battalion
99. WW2EU2_170604_154.JPG: Life of a G.I.
100. WW2EU2_170604_161.JPG: On the Front Lines
101. WW2EU2_170604_163.JPG: Northwestern Europe Race Across France
102. WW2EU2_170604_170.JPG: Northwestern Europe Liberation
103. WW2EU2_170604_174.JPG: Liberation of Paris
104. WW2EU2_170604_178.JPG: Mortain
105. WW2EU2_170604_182.JPG: George Stevens
106. WW2EU2_170604_186.JPG: Red Ball Express Patch: Patch authorized for Red Ball Express personnel, with initials for Transportation Corps, Motor Transport Service.
107. WW2EU2_170604_191.JPG: Bill Mauldin
108. WW2EU2_170604_194.JPG: Northwestern Europe No End in Sight
109. WW2EU2_170604_200.JPG: Large areas of Antwerp, Belgium, lie cratered and shattered after being struck by a horrific new German weapon, the V-2 missile. The Germans launched over 3,000 V-2s, most targeting Antwerp and London.
110. WW2EU2_170604_202.JPG: Germany's Weapons of Desperation
111. WW2EU2_170604_204.JPG: Red Ball Express
112. WW2EU2_170604_206.JPG: Market Garden
113. WW2EU2_170604_211.JPG: Advance Into Germany
114. WW2EU2_170604_219.JPG: Battle of the Bulge Hitler's Last Gamble
115. WW2EU2_170604_238.JPG: Battle of the Bulge Surprise Attack
116. WW2EU2_170604_242.JPG: Malmedy Massacre
117. WW2EU2_170604_249.JPG: Kurt Vonnegut
118. WW2EU2_170604_251.JPG: German Pattern of 1944 Winter Uniform: This army-pattern camouflage uniform consisted of a jacket and matching trousers. It has an attached wool lining and second silk lining, making for a very warm garment. Most front line German troops wore this type of uniform.
119. WW2EU2_170604_253.JPG: Souvenir Nazi Flag
120. WW2EU2_170604_258.JPG: German Gas Can: This Wehrmacht "jerry can" was used to hold gasoline. Desperate for fuel and relying increasingly on horse-drawn transport, German commanders knew that their Ardennes offensive would require the capture of Allied fuel supplies.
121. WW2EU2_170604_263.JPG: Battle of the Bulge The North Shoulder
122. WW2EU2_170604_266.JPG: American GIs line up for food. Hot meals were hard to come by on the front lines during the battle.
123. WW2EU2_170604_268.JPG: Winter Weather
124. WW2EU2_170604_280.JPG: Soldier's Friend
125. WW2EU2_170604_288.JPG: Battle of the Bulge Siege of Bastogne
126. WW2EU2_170604_294.JPG: Battle of the Bulge American Counterattack
127. WW2EU2_170604_296.JPG: A crewman of the 761st Tank Battalion, US Army, peers out of the hatch of an M4 Sherman medium tank. The African American unit, attached to the 87th Infantry Division, helped relieve Bastogne.
128. WW2EU2_170604_299.JPG: January Fighting
129. WW2EU2_170604_309.JPG: Opel Sedan
130. WW2EU2_170604_315.JPG: Patton's Christmas Greeting / Prayer Card William DeFrates and other soldiers of the 10th Armored Division, Third Army, received this Christmas Greeting / Prayer Card in a convoy of supplies delivered during the fighting near Bastogne. According to folklore, the prayer was written due to the bad weather the Americans faced during the Battle of the Bulge. The Chief Chaplain of the Third Army, who wrote the prayer, has said that it was in fact composed prior to the beginning of the battle. The delivery of these cards to the troops, and the clear weather that closely followed, has forever linked this prayer with the Battle of the Bulge.
131. WW2EU2_170604_340.JPG: Into the German Homeland The Fall of the Third Reich
132. WW2EU2_170604_360.JPG: "One cannot go to war and come back normal." -- Richard Proulx, Infantryman, US Army
133. WW2EU2_170604_361.JPG: Cologne
134. WW2EU2_170604_367.JPG: MG 15 Machine Gun (Germany)
135. WW2EU2_170604_370.JPG: Overcoming Hitler's West Wall
136. WW2EU2_170604_373.JPG: Into the German Homeland Breaching the Siegfried Line
137. WW2EU2_170604_380.JPG: Final Assault
138. WW2EU2_170604_385.JPG: Operation Varsity
139. WW2EU2_170604_387.JPG: Hamburg
140. WW2EU2_170604_393.JPG: Fall of the Third Reich
141. WW2EU2_170604_395.JPG: Death Throes of Nazism
142. WW2EU2_170604_404.JPG: Teapot, Teacup and Saucer, Creamer and Egg Cups These china pieces are marked with the national eagle emblem of Nazi Germany, with "D" and "R" (short for Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft, the German State Railway) flanking the swastika in the eagle's talons. The number "231" is painted on the bottom, and represents a railcar used by a member of the Nazi party. These items were taken from a train, although it is unclear which party official used the car designated "231."
143. WW2EU2_170604_407.JPG: Silver Teapot (stamped with Hitler's initials "AH")
144. WW2EU2_170604_420.JPG: Fork, Dessert Knife, Dinner Knife, and Spoon Stamped with Hitler's "AH" initials.
145. WW2EU2_170604_422.JPG: "AH" initials
146. WW2EU2_170604_428.JPG: Dresden
147. WW2EU2_170604_432.JPG: "No other war in history has so definitely lines up the forces of arbitrary oppression and dictatorship against those of human rights and individual liberty." -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 1943, letter to his son John
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Wikipedia Description: National World War II Museum
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The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins and Magazine Street. It focuses on the United States contribution to victory in World War II, and the Battle of Normandy in particular. It has been designated by the U.S. Congress as "America's National World War II Museum".

Museum Description:

The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day. The museum has a large lobby where aircraft and other items are suspended from the ceiling. Visitors pay admission fees at the desk in the center of the lobby and then visitors' tickets are separated from the ticket stub by veterans of D-Day. Admission prices during the summer of 2005 were marked at $14, with discounts offered to children, students, military members and their families, veterans, and senior citizens. The building is several stories high; elevators are available but the stairs are more accessible and are quicker. Visitors begin their self-guided tour of the museum on the top floor and work their way down toward the ground floor. The museum goes in chronological order; that is, the top floor assesses the political, social, and economic conditions that led up to World War II and D-Day. For example, the museum compares the relative military strengths of major nations entering the war. Later visitors see a model of the beaches of Normandy with the relative positions of the number of aircraft and amphibious vehicles. However, the museum does not solely discuss the invasion; visitors may also view an electronic map of the Pacific Ocean that lights up to illustrate the Allied strategy of island hopping, culminating with nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Visitors to the museum are encouraged to allocate roughly 2 1/2 to 3 hours to tour the museum. The museum also contains two auditoriums where educational videos are played as well as a gift shop.

Relation to New Orleans:

Some may wonder why the National World War II Museum is located in New Orleans, a city known for other tourism sites, but which is not usually associated with twentieth-century military history. The main reason the museum is located in New Orleans is because the city was where the "Higgins Boats" vital to D-Day operations were designed, built, and tested. The museum gives extensive coverage of the "LCVP" or "Higgins Boat" landing craft used in the invasion of Normandy and elsewhere. These landing craft were designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana and produced in New Orleans by Higgins Industries and its licensees. Furthermore, New Orleans was the home city of historian Stephen Ambrose, who spearheaded the effort to build such a museum.

The Museum closed for three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, re-opening on December 3 that year. A museum banner promoted this re-opening by proclaiming "We Have Returned," a phrase the banner juxtaposed with the classic World War II photograph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur striding through the surf on his return to the Philippines.
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