Fom the Jan. 13, 2013, WWL TV .
This new addition is a $35 million, 26,000 square foot, addition to showcase World War II weaponry. It has six planes, including a Red Tail P-51, the plane of the Tuskegee Airmen, which flew 68 combat missions in 1945.
From the Jan. 11, 2013, New York Times "A Big Exhibition About An Even Bigger War" by Edward Rothstein.
This new hall is the National World War II museum's third building, now half-way to their goal of six. on their $325 million campus. They hope to be finished by 2016. So far, they have 178,000 square feet, aiming for another 100,000.
The new hall features a B-17 Flying Fortress, a Corsair fighter (Whistling Death) and two levels of catwalks.
There is also an enormous interactive database. One of them is of the 464 Medal of Honor winners from the war and another one of over 700 governmental leaders in it including George H.W. Bush, Gerald. Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Something I'm Going to Have to See the Next Time I'm in New Orleans. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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