DC museum exhibits feature WWII themes
Submitted on May 25, 2004 - 12:00am.
Beverly Gooden and Janelle Rucker
WASHINGTON – A torn, soiled American flag with a single bullet hole. A faded photograph of a young, black pilot in the Tuskegee Airmen. A blurry series of pictures showing the deaths of U.S. troops on D-Day.
These are just a few of the items in two exhibits opening Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History to coincide with the dedication weekend for the National World War II Memorial.
“So Proudly We Hail” unites for the first time in one exhibit four historic flags from the war. Among them is the American flag raised at Iwo Jima, which was also the inspiration for the Marine Corps War Memorial just across the Potomac River near Arlington Cemetery.
These are just a few of the items in two exhibits opening Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History to coincide with the dedication weekend for the National World War II Memorial.
“So Proudly We Hail” unites for the first time in one exhibit four historic flags from the war. Among them is the American flag raised at Iwo Jima, which was also the inspiration for the Marine Corps War Memorial just across the Potomac River near Arlington Cemetery.
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