Thursday, June 13, 2013

National WW-II Museum

We spent nearly a whole day at this museum.  We went through most of the D Day portion and then watched the "Beyond All Boundaries" a Tom Hanks narrated/produced 4D movie in the theater that was excellent - seats are wired for motion and all kinds of stuff pops up from the stage and drops down from the ceiling.  Broke for lunch (see Acme Oyster House) and came back and finished the D Day section and the went through the Pacific portion fairly quickly as we had just done the War in the Pacific Museum in Fredricksburg a few days earlier.  Moved over to the new Boeing building and looked around, took a few pictures then went on the final mission of the Submarine Tang.  Interesting as this was the most successful Sub in WW-II but due to a torpedo malfunction on the final mission it ended up sinking itself.  Before the tour the guide handed out cards which had names and duty stations of the various crew - once in the mock-up you assumed the duty station of the person who's card you had.  I guess I was lucky - there were only 5 survivors - and I was one!







1 comment:

  1. We missed the Museum... bummer.

    the pictures of the people on the catwalk gives one some perspective just how large that display area is. That Mustang looks like it might be in Tuskegee Colors.

    Gonna have to put the museum on our go back to list.

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