We had an interesting trip to the World War II Museum, we had thunder and heavy rain, the streets started to flood and twice a passing truck doused our car with enough water that we were temporarily blinded. We spent over five hours at the museum seeing five main exhibits.
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| Cook books and ration books |
The first exhibit was
about how civilian life changed prior to and during the war. We went from most
people taking an isolationist stance with a slow move to supporting Great
Britain against the Germans and Japanese. When Pearl Harbor attacked there was
a quick change of heart and quick enlistment into the services. Soon industries
changed their purposes to make tanks, ships, planes, and munitions. Goods were
rationed, and people had new cookbooks based on what wasn’t rationed.
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| Ships and Planes on D-Day |
The second exhibit focused on D Day, the largest invasion in history. 11,000 aircraft, 6000 naval vessels and 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen from 15 countries. We went on to the 4D presentation beyond all boundaries which presented numerous stories about the war.
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| Hopping island to island |
The exhibit Road to Tokyo made us realize how close we were to losing the war with Japan. A few courageous actions and luck ended the domination of the Japanese Navy and allowed us to hop from island to island to allow our planes to attack Japan. Still based on the “die for the emperor rather than surrender” on Okinawa and the emperors refusal to surrender despite the death tolls in Japanese cities, made the choice of the A-bomb a logical choice for Truman. Finally, we went to the Road to Berlin. The many videos available in each of these exhibits made the day more interesting than reading a lot of placards.
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| Bombing Japan |
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