THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM Annual Report 2018 On June 10, 2017, The National WWII Museum as a visible source of pride and inspiration for the unfolded a new chapter in fulfilling its mission to workers who had earned it, but it also served as a tell the complete story of the American experience growing symbol at other factories across the Home in the war that changed the world. On this day, the Front of how essential the nation’s civilians were Museum opened its newest permanent exhibit, The to America’s victory. This theme of Americans’ Arsenal of Democracy: The Herman and George perseverance and resolute spirit continues through R. Brown Salute to the Home Front, which explores stories revealed to visitors as they explore The the events that led to our nation’s involvement in Arsenal of Democracy’s nine galleries. World War II, and how the war was won through Following the opening of The Arsenal of the ingenuity and labor of patriotic Americans. Democracy, the Museum launched a series of Through the exhibit’s personal narratives and initiatives to deeper examine the exhibit’s content. evocative artifacts, stories are told of how everyday Throughout Fiscal Year 2018, Museum staff hosted civilians helped the United States become the various public programming events exploring the world’s arsenal of democracy, and how World War American Home Front, opened a special exhibit II affected American culture, from rationing to the focusing on Louisiana’s role in the war, broadcast draft to civil rights. a distance-learning program about the African Before the first visitors even entered The American experience in the war, and broke ground Arsenal of Democracy’s introductory gallery, they on a hotel and conference center named for famed were introduced to a narrative that truly embodied New Orleans boatbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins. the patriotic spirit of the millions of Americans For thousands of visitors, the American Home Front across the Home Front: the story of the Brown is now at the forefront of their Museum experience, Shipbuilding Company. A red and navy blue pennant whether in-person at the institution’s campus or via flag—emblazoned with a large white “E” at its digital outreach. center—immediately grabbed visitors’ eyes at the Through this annual report, we look back at exhibit’s entryway. The flag represents the great how Fiscal Year 2018’s milestones furthered the achievements of brothers and engineers Herman Museum’s mission to better engage and interact and George R. Brown, who together transformed with current and new audiences. Its pages also their construction company Brown and Root into a visually track the journey visitors make through massive production hub—called Brown Shipbuilding the immersive The Arsenal of Democracy exhibit Company—capable of turning out high-quality ships itself, demonstrating how the Museum now teaches at a rapid pace during World War II, despite the fact essential components of the larger war narrative— that the company had never built one. the road to war and how it was experienced and The brothers’ “can-do” spirit inspired the men supported on the US Home Front. In its galleries, and women who worked at their newly created visitors learn about the efforts behind the Brown Shipbuilding Company, the corporation’s production, innovation, and volunteerism that made collective endeavors turning out over 350 warships Allied victories possible on battlefields all across from its Greens Bayou shipyard in Houston. Less the globe. In this Annual Report, readers will learn than 5% of companies involved in war production about the engines of investigation, imagination, received an Army-Navy “E” Award, but Brown and presentation that built unforgettable learning Shipbuilding Company received four for their great experiences for our audiences—through the achievement, and this gifted flag flew proudly upon Museum’s galleries and public programming, and in the shipyard’s mast. Not only did the flag serve homes, offices, and classrooms across the country. The Museum’s Board of Trustees gathers at the entrance of The Arsenal of Democracy. 2018–2019 Board of Trustees

FOUNDER TRUSTEES PRESIDENT & CEO EMERITUS

Stephen E. Ambrose Herschel L. Abbott Jr. Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller, PhD (1936–2002) Richard C. Adkerson Dwight W. Anderson Clifford S. Asness Norman R. Augustine TRUSTEES EMERITI OFFICERS Brandon B. Berger Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell Harold J. Bouillion C. Paul Hilliard Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger Louis M. Freeman Chairman Michael S. Bylen James S. Chanos John E. Koerner III James H. Clement III Vice Chairman Henry L. Coaxum Jr. HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS / Ralph E. Crump MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS John D. Georges Richard L. Duchossois Vice Chair William A. Goldring Col. Jack Jacobs, USA (Ret.) Charles W. “Chip” Goodyear Maj. General James Livingston, USMC (Ret.) John M. Hairston Thomas A. Gruber Vice Chair Hunter G. Hill C. Jeffrey Knittel James A. Courter H. Merritt Lane III Immediate Past Chairman Alan M. Leventhal Robert E. Smith Lupo Ted Weggeland James E. Maurin Secretary Markham R. McKnight Robert W. Merrick Raymond J. Brandt Suzanne T. Mestayer Treasurer Michael A. Morris Dennis A. Muilenburg Stephen J. Watson David Nierenberg President & CEO Jane T. Olson Robert J. Patrick Sonia A. Pérez Robert L. Priddy Todd Ricketts Wyatt G. Rockefeller Edwin R. “Rod” Rodriguez Jr. Tracy L. Rosser Mark M. Rubin Joe F. Sanderson Jr. Philip G. Satre Robert A. "Bobby" Savoie, PhD Peggy Higgins Sewell W. Gray Stream Henry Swieca Thomas H. Turner André F. Villeneuve Governor Christine T. Whitman Governor Pete Wilson

2 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 3 The Arsenal of Democracy’s Manufacturing Victory gallery features sights and sounds of factory Letter from production, including disassembled machinery and interactive the Chairman of the Board experiences.

From ingenious discoveries to manufacturing efforts across the Home Front, in Fiscal Year 2018 the Museum’s galleries welcomed new stories and voices of the WWII generation. By incorporating this vital narrative into the Museum experience, we’ve stepped closer towards telling the full story of the American experience in the war that changed the world, and I’m excited to encourage our supporters to continue this journey with us. Having started my tenure as Board Chairman on July 1, 2018, I am honored to help advance the efforts of my predecessor, Immediate Past Chairman Jim Courter, and I thank him for his dedication and work guiding our Board of Trustees. Through Jim’s leadership, the Museum gained national popularity and international recognition, with the 2017 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice® awards ranking the Museum as No. 2 in the nation and No. 2 in the world. By further enriching the visitor experience, new audiences took notice, and I couldn’t be more proud to help take our world-class Museum to its next chapter. If you’ve visited the Museum recently, you know that construction is well underway on future campus additions, including the Bollinger Canopy of Peace, The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center, C. PAUL HILLIARD and the Hall of Democracy—which will house the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the WWII Media and Education Center. With your support, the Museum’s final pavilion, the Liberation Pavilion, will be completed by 2021. Exploring the end of the war and its lasting legacies, the three-story pavilion will be the capstone to our campus and capture the last leg of our mission—what the war means today. As we move into this crucial period of completing our campus, we must remain focused on reaching our $400 million capital campaign goal and helping connect our supporters with available naming opportunities that offer a unique way to pay tribute to their loved ones who served our country, and help us share personal stories of the war with even greater audiences. Beyond New Orleans, we continued to expand our educational travel program last year as we took WWII enthusiasts to the very sites where history was made. I was honored to experience the Museum’s inaugural Victory in the Pacific program in March, where guests explored historical sites from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima and interacted with WWII veterans, including Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams. Having served in the South Pacific myself, I was able to share with travelers the immensity of the theater and the importance of humor in the face of hardship. Upon returning from the trip, commemorating the American spirit took center attention as the Museum held its annual American Spirit Awards in June. At the celebration’s capstone gala, philanthropist and WWII veteran Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, US Senator John McCain, and Museum and veterans champion Gary Sinise were honored with the American Spirit Award, the institution’s highest honor. The memorable celebration surpassed our fundraising goal of $1 million, a feat made possible by the unwavering support of our entire Museum family. Looking ahead, I’m thrilled to be part of future milestones, particularly this June when we commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day with two charter cruises to Normandy, a Museum- produced documentary, a new book authored by President & CEO Emeritus Nick Mueller, and an entire slate of programs at the Museum. It is sure to be a moving tribute to what remains the largest, most complicated invasion in history. As always, I want to thank you—our friends and supporters—for your ongoing commitment to complete one of the most inspiring museums in the world. Together, our efforts will continue to soar.

4 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 5 The Citizens to Warriors gallery in The Arsenal of Democracy examines Letter from how the explosive growth of all military branches brought together the President & CEO Americans from diverse backgrounds in a common experience of military training.

Over the past 18 years, The National WWII Museum has been dedicated to building a world-class campus to honor and share the stories of the brave men, women, and children who all came together to contribute to the war effort and help secure the freedom we enjoy today. Their personal stories of service and sacrifice, tragedy and loss, ingenuity and progress, as well as celebration and inspiration continue to guide our efforts as we near the completion of our physical Museum campus in New Orleans and begin planning for our next phase of growth beyond bricks and mortar. During this pivotal time for our institution, it is particularly fitting for us to have a WWII veteran leading our efforts as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. As a former radioman and gunner who flew 45 combat missions in SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers, Paul Hilliard deeply understands the urgency and importance of raising the remaining funds needed to finish our exhibit halls and expand our educational initiatives to reach even more students, teachers, and lifelong learners across the country. Thanks to our great Board leadership and your generous support, the Museum made incredible progress toward reaching these milestones over the past year. We opened two special exhibits on Louisiana’s wartime contributions and the legacy of Bob Hope while also breaking ground on the Hall STEPHEN J. WATSON of Democracy, Bollinger Canopy of Peace, and The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center with all three dedication ceremonies planned for 2019. We continued to break visitation records—attracting 754,465 visitors this year and marking the 13th consecutive year of visitation growth. Over 62,000 students in classrooms across America also participated in our distance-learning programs, several of which highlighted the lesser-known stories of the critical roles that African Americans and Latinos played in the war. Meanwhile, our Institute for the Study of War and Democracy along with our WWII Media and Education Center are fully established and already developing new programs that will help shape the future of our expansion efforts. This winter, we launched the nation’s first online master’s degree in World War II Studies with Arizona State University, and for the past year we have been partnering with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to assist in locating, identifying, and ultimately returning the remains of WWII veterans still unaccounted for. To help families learn the stories of their loved one’s WWII service, our staff historians and researchers have also introduced WWII Research Services to find and translate military records for the public. As time marches on, we understand that these programs and the entire mission of our Museum will only grow more important each day. In this year’s Annual Report, we are proud to highlight our newest permanent exhibit, The Arsenal of Democracy: The Herman and George R. Brown Salute to the Home Front, which not only tells the story of why the war was fought but also celebrates the American spirit that inspired the can-do, all-in-this-together movement across the country. It is that same spirit that has made this Museum the success it is today. None of the efforts highlighted in this report would be possible without the dedication of our Board of Trustees, staff, volunteers, and growing number of supporters—now including over 176,000 Charter Members. Thank you for helping us reach these milestones and inspiring us to keep expanding our efforts to share the story of the war that changed the world.

6 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Mission Statement

The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American experience in the war that changed the world—why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today—so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired by what they learn.

8 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 9 Museum Unveils The Pelican State Goes to War: Louisiana in World War II

Listen to Rosemary “Wasn’t it wonderful that women got a chance to work and earn, Elfer’s full oral history at ww2online.org. and bring some money into the house? That was marvelous.”

—Rosemary Elfer, Higgins Industries worker and Women’s Army Corps

THE PELICAN STATE GOES On July 27, 2017, over 400 guests packed to change public perception about women and TO WAR PUBLIC PROGRAMMING the Museum’s Louisiana Memorial Pavilion for African Americans in the workforce. HIGHLIGHTS the opening of its original exhibit The Pelican The Pelican State Goes to War visitors State Goes to War: Louisiana in World War II, learned how Higgins Industries’s seven plants Weekend War Games: Louisiana Maneuvers presented by The Alta and John Franks throughout New Orleans were the first in the —August 19, 2017 Foundation. Museum Curator James Linn city to fully integrate a diverse workforce collaborated with historical experts across the of women, men, African Americans, and Dinner with a Curator: James Linn presents state to create an exhibit illustrating Louisiana’s Caucasians, all receiving equal pay for equal “Louisiana and World War II” contributions to American victory during World work. Dugas’s profile also exemplified how —October 24, 2017 War II. Highlights of the state’s efforts displayed gender stereotypes in the workforce were in the exhibit included the Louisiana Maneuvers changed during the war, the former seamstress Louisiana in World War II: held in 1940 and 1941—when nearly 500,000 becoming one of thousands of Louisiana Teacher Workshop American troops trained for war throughout women to take part in the wide variety of jobs in —November 4, 2017 the central part of the state—in addition to vital industries across the state. Altogether, the Louisiana’s wartime manufacturing efforts, exhibit showed the role that Louisiana workers Louisiana in World War II: including Higgins Industries’s construction played in helping to power a massive effort to Teacher Professional Development Webinar of more than 20,000 vessels and Thibodaux support the war through defense industries— —November 8, 2017 Boiler Works production of over two million despite any differences or hardships— artillery shells. which helped the state become a significant The exhibit not only told the story contributor in transforming the nation. A Veteran’s Story: of Louisiana’s contributions to military During the course of the exhibit’s run Paul Hilliard Shares His Wartime Experience training, civilian defense efforts, and wartime at the Museum, the institution hosted a series —December 6, 2017 manufacturing—which far exceeded that of of free public programs that complemented other states its size—but it also revealed the the exhibit and educated the public about The Pelican State Goes to War Symposium: faces of Louisianans who were instrumental the multifaceted ways in which Louisiana Uniquely Louisiana in Allied victory. Those highlighted included contributed to the war effort, and how the —April 19, 2018 well-known figures, such as entrepreneur and war itself affected the lives of Louisianans. boatbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, and those Made possible by The Alta and John Franks who worked tirelessly behind the scenes, like Foundation, the exhibit’s programming held Delta Shipbuilding welder Beulah Dugas. Both a common connection with the Foundation’s played important roles in manufacturing naval namesake John Franks, who served in craft necessary to win the war, and in helping World War II and whose family members

10 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2511 THE ALTA AND JOHN FRANKS FOUNDATION

The Alta and John Franks Foundation is proud to sponsor The Pelican State Goes to War: Louisiana in World War II exhibit, which opened at the Museum in July 2017. After its run at the institution, the traveling exhibit made its first stop at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana, the hometown of The Alta and John Franks Foundation, in August 2018. The exhibit pays tribute to the role Louisiana citizens played in World War II. By engaging visitors through the exhibit’s interactive displays, oral histories, and artifacts, guests will have a deeper understanding of Louisiana’s contribution to victory in World War II. The war made a huge impact on the life of a young John Franks. His story began in 1925 on a 50-acre Haughton, Louisiana, farm. The youngest of six children, Franks graduated from Haughton experienced the war firsthand in their town of Higgins Industries Carole Cotton Winn joins Haughton, Louisiana. worker Louis Lanza’s red more than 400 guests in High School in 1942, and that same year, enrolled hard hat is a featured the Museum’s Louisiana in Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Displayed in The Joe W. and Dorothy D. artifact in The Pelican Memorial Pavilion for Rouge, entering its School of Journalism as a Brown Foundation Special Exhibit Gallery, the State Goes to War. Hard the grand opening of The budding young reporter. But his newspaper plans exhibit ran through April 29, 2018, and will now hats were an important Pelican State Goes to War. never bloomed as the call for young men in World travel to at least 10 cities across Louisiana, piece of equipment for Winn provided remarks workers because of the about artifacts from War II reached Franks; he entered the service, bringing the story of this critical part of the dangers associated with her father, Lt. Colonel becoming a bombardier and radar specialist. state’s history to the places where it happened. constructing thousands William Davis Cotton, Possibly spared by the surrender of Japan Through its journey, the exhibit will bring another of craft so quickly. which are featured in shortly before Franks was to be deployed in 1945, the exhibit. chapter of America’s Home Front efforts to even he returned to LSU. Franks decided to cancel larger audiences, joining the Museum’s other his journalism plans and enrolled in the School current traveling exhibits Manufacturing Victory: of Geology, because of the job opportunities The Arsenal of Democracy and Fighting for the available at the time. However, he later discovered that the demand for geologists had minimized Right to Fight: African American Experiences in since his enrollment. Through perseverance World War II. and sacrifice, he built a successful oil and gas exploration business, which allowed Franks and his wife, Alta, to create The Alta and John Franks Foundation to pursue important community philanthropic opportunities.

12 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 13 65th Infantry soldiers PAN-AMERICAN LIFE after an all-day schedule INSURANCE GROUP of maneuvers at Salinas, Distance-Learning Puerto Rico.

Student reporter Maceo Initiatives Help Share Stories Carney and Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest living of Struggle and Triumph National Park Service Ranger serving in the United States, at The Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California.

“The significance of that happening, just think, to be the honor man Listen to Edgar Cole’s full oral history at of a platoon, in a military organization where we weren’t wanted. ww2online.org. And in spite of all of that, I still wanted to be the best.”

—Edgar Cole, Member of the Montford Point Marines, the nation’s first African American Marines who received basic training at Montford Point Camp, North Carolina In spring 2018, Pan-American Life Insurance Group generously donated $1 million to the Museum in support of the institution’s Virtual Field Trip, Los Veteranos: Latinos in World War II. Through this free virtual experience, students throughout the nation were able to connect live with a Museum educator during National Hispanic Heritage Month. As part of the Museum’s K-12 Distance Learning program, Los Veteranos explores the In Fiscal Year 2018, the Museum’s Distance Also joining the production was Museum the battlefields overseas to manufacturing and history of more than 500,000 Latino Americans— Learning program explored the wartime Distance Learning Specialist Shelbie Johnson agricultural efforts made across the Home Front. including 350,000 Mexican Americans and 53,000 experience of African Americans and Latino and student reporters Mizani Ball and Maceo The wartime movement toward social Puerto Ricans—who fought in desegregated units Americans. Through these educational offerings, Carney, who throughout the webcast interviewed and economic equality for both African throughout the European and Pacific theaters during World War II. students across the nation gained deeper insight special guests about their personal struggles Americans and Latino Americans proved to be The Virtual Field Trip highlights wartime into war-era racial injustices. By examining for first-class citizenship during the war. Carney less transformative after the war, as the federal contributions made by Latino American men as well artifacts from the Museum’s collections and interviewed National Park Service Ranger Kelli government’s interventions failed to completely as Latina American women. Due to their bilingualism, exploring WWII historic sites, webcast viewers English and WWII Home Front worker Betty break the persistent hold of racial discrimination. many Latinas found important work in cryptology, were able to better understand the adversity Reid Soskin at historic sites in California, giving Yet, through the Museum’s Distance Learning communications, and interpretation, breaking encountered by victims of discrimination at home students a chance to look inside the Port Chicago program, students were able to gain newfound through both gender and cultural barriers to serve in America and the heroism of these individuals Naval Magazine National Memorial and The Rosie knowledge on the contributions made by their country. Thousands of Latino men and Latina who helped shape our nation’s history. the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical all Americans during the war, and how the women also supported the war effort by working on On February 22, 2018, more than 40,000 Park. Johnson and Ball spoke with Tuskegee determination and extraordinary efforts of every railroads, in mines, shipyards, and airplane factories, students in 1,141 schools in all 50 states and Airman George Hardy back at the Museum in New American became key factors in the nation’s and as crucial agricultural workers. Washington, DC, took part in the Museum’s live Orleans. During one segment, they specifically ability to secure victory. Through primary source documents and oral histories directly from Latino and Latina veterans, interactive Electronic Field Trip Fighting for the focused on the United but Unequal gallery in the The Museum’s Fighting for the Right students learn how these Americans overcame Right to Fight: African American Experiences in Museum’s The Arsenal of Democracy exhibit, and to Fight Electronic Field Trip was generously discrimination and adversity while serving their World War II. Produced in partnership with The examined the changes in discriminatory hiring supported by Paul and Didi Reilly in honor of Paul country and making significant contributions along National Park Service, the documentary-style practices during World War II after President J Reilly, US Marine Sergeant, WWII, The Dale E. the way. webcast examined the major cultural, social, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive and Janice Davis Johnston Family Foundation In addition to bringing this important part of economic shifts that played out in the lives of Order 8802 in 1941. in honor of Dr. Earle R. Davis and his service US history to students through Los Veteranos, the African Americans—both on the Home Front and In addition to sharing the WWII personal aboard the USS Tranquillity, the Albert and Ethel gift also sponsors the Pan-American Life Insurance on the battlefront—during World War II. stories of African Americans, the Museum also Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Alan & Diane Group World Map in the Museum’s Louisiana The Museum-produced webcast—geared presented the Virtual Field Trip Los Veteranos: Franco, and the C. Jay Moorhead Foundation. Memorial Pavilion. Standing 49 feet high and 28 for students in grades 6–12—was hosted by Rob Latinos in World War II to students throughout Additional support was provided by Fabenco feet wide, the dynamic, two-story digital world map Citino, PhD, the Museum’s Samuel Zemurray America during National Hispanic Heritage Founding Fathers Foundation and Anonymous. A educates visitors on the global expansion of Axis powers and the significant events that led to Stone Senior Historian, and Damon Singleton, a Month. Made possible through a gift from Pan- collection of the Museum’s past distance-learning Allied victory. Navy veteran and meteorologist for New Orleans American Life Insurance Group, Los Veteranos programs are available for viewing on demand Through Pan-American’s special gift, the NBC affiliate WDSU-TV. Together, Citino and connected classrooms to a live Museum educator at nationalww2museum.org/distance-learning- Museum’s educational outreach efforts will continue Singleton explored how local black communities who helped examine the significant impact that videos. to expand students’ understanding of the invaluable took part in wartime programs while intensifying Latinos and Latinas made during World War II contributions of all Americans during the war that their demands for social progress. despite discrimination, from sacrifices made on changed the world.

14 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 15 Kim Guise, the Museum’s Assistant Director for Curatorial Services, Summer Teacher Institute displays artifacts for Team Home Front— the third cohort of the Explores Home Front Story Museum’s Summer Teacher Institute.

Listen to Frederick “I was sitting in a theater in Detroit, and suddenly the movie went off— Hollis’s full oral history at ww2online.org and everything went black. The manager came out, and he announced that in the Museum’s The the Japanese naval and air forces had attacked our naval base at Pearl Arsenal of Democracy Harbor, and it was just stunned silence. And then all of a sudden, there exhibit. was a woman…stood up with the most bloodcurdling scream I’ve heard in my entire life. I will never forget it. And she started screaming ‘My boy! My boy! He’s stationed in Pearl Harbor!’ I’ll carry that to my grave.”

—Frederick Hollis, civilian

Throughout Fiscal Year 2018, production The guide also tells the story of how all was underway on Volume 3 of the Museum’s Americans played a part in the Home Front war curriculum guide series, From the Collection efforts, demonstrating a level of involvement, to the Classroom: Teaching History with The commitment, and sacrifice not shown in previous National WWII Museum. As thousands of conflicts. As told in the guide’s essays “Becoming students in classrooms around the country the Arsenal of Democracy,” “Gender on the Home were benefitting from the first two installments Front,” and “The Double V Victory,” women and from the series—Volume 1, focusing on the African Americans stepped up to the challenge Pacific theater of the war, and Volume 2, to fill factory jobs previously held by young white focusing on the war in Europe—members of men who had quickly filled the ranks of the US the Museum’s Institute for the Study of War military instead. and Democracy, Education Department, WWII By the war’s end in 1945, the United States Media and Education Center, and Marketing had fulfilled President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s & Communications teams were developing admonition to become the great arsenal of content focused on the struggles and triumphs democracy. American manufacturers had turned of the 116 million Americans who experienced out more than 96,000 bombers, 86,000 tanks, the war on the Home Front. 2.4 million trucks, 6.5 million rifles, and billions of Through this curriculum guide and dollars’ worth of supplies to equip a truly global its companion website, ww2classroom.org, fighting force, all while challenging social-cultural educators from across the nation gain access perceptions and gender stereotypes. Through to lesson plans, primary source materials, these accounts, students learn that without oral history videos, and other teaching aids the sacrifices made by Americans at home, US to introduce their 7–12 grade students to the soldiers, sailors, and airmen could not have fought American experience of World War II through and defeated our enemies abroad. the eyes and words of those who lived it. Not The curriculum guide was distributed in only does the curriculum guide’s essays explain summer 2018 when participants of Team Home how the nation came together to solve complex Front—the third cohort of the Museum’s Summer problems created by the war, but it also describes Teacher Institute—gathered at the Museum’s the impact it had on the lives of everyday campus for the first day of an intensive one- Americans due to wartime practices such as week training program. Made possible through A. rationing, the draft, and segregation—social James & Alice B. Clark Foundation— transformations that changed the country forever. who supported the production of the Institute’s

16 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 17 curriculum guide as well—Museum and university Thirty teachers from Volume 3 of the Museum’s scholars were able to bring the story of the across the nation curriculum guide series— Home Front to life for educators from around the participate in the From the Collection to Museum’s 2018 Summer the Classroom: Teaching nation. Teachers from 27 different states were Teacher Institute, History with The National selected from a competitive applicant pool of which is focused on the WWII Museum—will over 400 educators to visit the Museum and to be American Home Front. help teachers put the institution’s innovative introduced to the third volume of the Museum’s exhibits and extensive curriculum series. The 30 participating teachers collection of artifacts to took the Home Front curriculum materials back to work in their classrooms. their local schools and districts to share with their peers this past fall, but more importantly, with their students. The Museum is grateful to A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation for supporting the third Summer Teacher Institute cohort, as well as the David I. Oreck Foundation for supporting the Museum’s first cohort, and the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation for supporting the second.

18 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 19 Museum’s STEM Programming Reaches New Heights in 2018

“Powerful enemies must be outfought and outproduced.”

—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion, offers declared in his Fireside Chat on December visitors, educators, and students the opportunity 9, 1941—two days after the attack on Pearl to engage in tactile learning and exploration Harbor—that “every single man, woman, and through hands-on experiments and authentic child is a partner in the most tremendous WWII macro-artifacts. undertaking of our American history,” In addition to STEM learning opportunities communities all across the country united for students, the Museum also offers STEM behind the war effort, performing all kinds of workshops and professional development tasks to help the Allies, no matter how large or programs for teachers through a curriculum how small. aligned with the Next Generation Science Contributing to those efforts were Standards. Supported by a grant from the scientists, technicians, and inventors, who Northrop Grumman Foundation, the Museum supplied a steady stream of new products that hosts a weeklong learning program for middle helped make victory possible. From businesses school math and science teachers that explores like Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, and US key STEM concepts using actual WWII examples. Rubber Company sharing patents and scientific In Fiscal Year 2018, 28 teachers from across information with one another so that they could the country were selected to experience the help solve the nation’s rubber crisis, to young Real World Science Summer Teacher Seminar’s scientist Harry Coover discovering the active fourth cohort, which gathered in New Orleans ingredient in Super Glue while searching for a in July to explore how necessity, knowledge, clear plastic he could use to make gun sights, perseverance, and skill lead to inventions, all played a significant part in helping the United innovation, and careers in STEM, just as they States find the strategic goods necessary for did in World War II. fighting the war. Additionally, in May 2018, the Boeing To educate the public about how science, Company pledged $1.5 million to support technology, engineering, and math (STEM) the Museum’s STEM initiatives, including the contributed—and advanced—in World War Museum’s annual Robotics Challenge, which II, the Museum launched its STEM education will expand to a multistate regional competition, program in 2012 and currently offers STEM allowing a larger student population to develop education field trips and summer science camps problem-solving techniques through applied to over 1,000 students annually. The Museum’s science and engineering. The donation will STEM Innovation Gallery, now housed in the also lead to more staffing resources and three

20 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 21 BOEING NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION

Known today as the Northrop Grumman Corporation, Northrop Aircraft Inc. and the Grumman Corporation played vital roles during World War II by providing Allied troops with critical aircraft and supplies necessary to secure As the leading manufacturer of commercial victory. The Northrop P-61 Black Widow along airplanes, military aircraft, and space and security with the Grumman F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, systems, in addition to serving as a provider of for example, were instrumental to air warfare in international services, The Boeing Company all theaters of the war. In fact, in 1942 Grumman connects, protects, explores, and inspires the Corporation earned the Army-Navy “E” Award world. It also strengthens communities across flag for excellence in production, and in 1948 the globe through the programs it supports and its founder Leroy Grumman was awarded the key partnerships, including with The National Presidential Medal for Merit for outstanding WWII Museum. wartime production. In 2018, Boeing pledged $1.5 million to Given the company’s historical significance support the Museum’s education and innovation in World War II, it is particularly meaningful for programs aimed at advancing student knowledge The National WWII Museum to enjoy a long- in the fields of science, technology, engineering, standing partnership with Northrop Grumman and math—collectively known as STEM. Foundation. A grant from the foundation in 2014 Through this gift, Boeing is recognized as a lead enabled the Museum to establish the Real World supporter of the STEM program in perpetuity in Science Summer Teacher Seminar, a weeklong the institution’s STEM Innovation Gallery, helping teacher professional development seminar hosted to create more staffing resources and three new annually at the Museum. Each year, the program interactive exhibits within it. Additionally, through provides 28 5th–8th grade science teachers from this gift the Museum’s annual Robotics Challenge across the nation the opportunity to learn how to will expand to a multistate regional competition, teach STEM (science, technology, engineering, allowing a larger student population to develop and math) in the context of the history of problem-solving techniques through applied World War II. Using examples from the war, science and engineering. educators learn classroom activities that teach As the manufacturer of the military’s famed students science with hands-on experiences, new interactive exhibits in the STEM Innovation solve problems and find creative solutions— The Museum’s Robotics B-17 Flying Fortress, Boeing also donated $15 Gallery: Gears and Generators, Internal bringing to life a significant part of the WWII story. Challenge is an exciting design projects, and engaging real-world million to the Museum in 2010 to complete the examples. Over the course of the following Combustion and Turbochargers, and Exponential In addition to Boeing, the Museum’s opportunity for US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, which students to develop academic year, teachers are expected to share Growth of Bacteria. Robotics Challenge is also supported by Chevron, opened in 2013. This collaboration helped make it 21st century skills the Real World Science activities and curriculum Motorola Solutions Foundation, and The Bruce J. and participate in possible for the Museum to provide visitors with Earlier in May, middle school students were materials with 28 or more school district already eager to put their innovative skills to use Heim Foundation. active problem solving pavilion-high catwalks to see up-close views of all based on real-life colleagues and implement it in their classrooms. ceiling-suspended authentic aircraft, including when the Museum held its sixth annual Robotics scenarios from World In the first four years of Real World Science, a B-17E Flying Fortress, a P-51 Mustang, and the Challenge in the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing War II. the Museum has trained 109 teachers who have forward fuselage of a B-24 Liberator. Center. The competition attracted 37 energetic conducted workshops for more than 1,500 “Boeing is committed to moving the world teams of 4–8 grade students—nearly 400 additional teachers, ultimately impacting more through our innovative products and services, students and coaches—who all came armed with than 100,000 students nationwide. The initiative is as well as our community investments and displays on WWII people, places, and objects in part of the rich teacher professional development partnerships,” said Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing their community and with robots programmed to programming that Northrop Grumman and the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Grumman Foundation have committed complete some of the 14 tasks on competition mats. and member of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. to in their STEM outreach and in their commitment To coincide with the Museum’s most “I’m proud of our longstanding relationship with to United Nations Sustainable Development recent traveling exhibit, the Robotics Challenge The National WWII Museum and our Boeing Goal 4. The Museum looks forward to advancing team members who dedicate their unique skills theme was The Pelican State Goes to War. All its partnership with the Northrop Grumman and passion, along with their time and financial participants gained firsthand experience using Foundation in its fifth year, continuing to blend the resources, to communities across the globe.” innovative 21st century skills and teamwork to importance of history lessons and STEM.

22 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 23 Museum Engages Audiences Through Home Front- Themed Events

“We had these great big drives to see which kids could collect the most Listen to Robert Gurr’s full oral history at pots and take them down to the schoolyard, so the military could come ww2online.org. and take these truckloads of aluminum and make airplanes out of it. Sure, it’s a sacrifice, give away your best pots, you know, but it’s war: you just did it.”

—Robert “Bob” Gurr, civilian

HOME FRONT PUBLIC PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

Liberty: The Louisiana Home Front through Historical Fiction Student Webinar —October 5, 2017

Throughout Fiscal Year 2018, the Museum’s One of the more popular programs, Higgins Reunion Day Education and Programming teams hosted a Ration Wars, featured a fast-paced, Iron Chef- —October 21, 2017 series of events at its campus to connect with style, WWII-themed cooking competition, audiences—from students to local history buffs demonstrating to guests how civilians had to Dinner with a Curator: to culinary aficionados—by exploring themes be quite inventive when it came to preparing Patrick Stephen presents “Baseball and World centered around various Home Front efforts, nourishing meals when food was rationed and War II: Playing Through the Years” particularly rationing. even basic items were scarce. —March 20, 2018 World War II put a heavy burden on US Even for those not able to make it to the supplies of basic materials like food, shoes, Museum’s campus during the year, the institution Rosie the Riveter Day metal, paper, and rubber due to the nation’s offered myriad opportunities for students and —June 2, 2018 effort to aid its allies overseas. However, civilians educators to interact in activities centered still needed these materials for consumer goods around the country’s rationing efforts. Get in the Garden to Glass as well. To meet this surging demand, the federal Scrap! is just one example of these programs. —June 13, 2018 government took steps to conserve crucial A national service-learning project inspired by supplies, including establishing a rationing the scrapping effort of students during World system that affected virtually every family in the War II, Get in the Scrap! offers students a chance HOME FRONT United States. Children also played a critical role to complete fun and educational classroom LUNCHBOX LECTURES in civilian defense, collecting scrap paper and activities while learning important lessons about metal for recycling, and even leftover cooking environmental stewardship. Josh Goodman, PhD, presents fats to be turned into glycerin for explosives and “Victory on the Menu: Dining out in World War II” ammunition. Every civilian contributed in some —September 6, 2017 way, and their united efforts ultimately helped make victory possible thousands of miles away. Charles Chamberlain, PhD, presents To demonstrate the sacrifices that “New Orleans Manufacturing: Simplex Americans made to aid these endeavors, the Museum held events and sponsored learning Motorcycles and Higgins Industries” activities to display in real time what everyday life —October 18, 2017 was like for civilians on the Home Front. Through fun and engaging programs, audiences got to taste Edward Branley presents and even see firsthand how these efforts affected “Krauss at War: Krauss Department Store, lives and communities. Canal Street, and the War Effort, 1941–1945” —January 3, 2018

24 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 25 Drafts for Crafts, presented by IBERIABANK, an annual Drafts for Crafts, fundraiser organized by the Museum’s Young Benefactors, serves Presented by IBERIABANK, as a platform for the institution’s ongoing Helps Put History In Motion efforts to restore significant WWII macro- artifacts. In years past, the Benefactors used this signature event to help complete the restoration of PT-305.

“We used to have air raids, whereas before we used to have fire drills Listen to Adelaide Benjamin’s full oral and they didn’t scare anybody because you could look up and see history at ww2online.org there was no fire. But when the air raids came, we didn’t get out of and in the Museumʼs The Arsenal of Democracy the building at all, instead they would put us under the tables in the exhibit. cafeteria. And I remember thinking, ‘If I’m bombed, who will tell my mother?’ And I thought every time was the real thing.”

—Adelaide Benjamin, civilian

On March 16, 2018, guests packed the Louisiana American LaFrance—was the most common of young professionals whose mission is Memorial Pavilion for a night of food, music, and fire truck used on military posts to combat to cultivate the Museum’s next generation fun to help keep the wheels of the institution’s structural fires. They could be found on all of support, the event carried into the late restoration and preservation efforts turning. types of camps and air bases, and several were evening hours with guests enjoying live music, The evening’s celebration, Drafts for Crafts, even reportedly sent out to Tinian Island in the samplings from local restaurants, and even presented by IBERIABANK, was dedicated to Pacific to provide fire protection for structures a wine raffle. Guests also had the unique the refurbishment of an authentic 1943 Ford- on the US airbase where preparations occurred opportunity to preview the restoration project American LaFrance Fire Truck, which was for the atomic bombing of Japan. with Museum Senior Curator & Restoration donated to the Museum in April 2009. The Due to the high demand of fire trucks Manager Tom Czekanski and local firefighters. multiyear restoration project will preserve the for the Army’s wartime fighting needs, the truck as a vital piece of WWII history and help Quartermasters Corps—who constructed most Museum visitors better understand challenges fire equipment used at Army installations in the on the American Home Front during wartime. 1930s—turned to the nation’s fire apparatus During the raid on Pearl Harbor on manufacturers to supply the much-needed December 7, 1941, one of the first Japanese vehicles. By November 1941, the Army Corps targets was the fleet of brightly colored, red of Engineers assumed responsibility for Army fire trucks, as Japan’s goal was to debilitate fire protection, and expanded the classification response efforts following the attack on the US of fire equipment as new types of fire trucks Navy fleet. After that day, the military ordered were developed and placed in the field. all military fire trucks to be painted green to help Hundreds of contracts for fire apparatus and prevent such future devastation. The Museum’s fighting equipment were awarded to fire- Ford-LaFrance, which was donated by Steve truck manufacturers. Once again, American Owen of Pell City, Alabama, will be restored as industries stepped up to the nation’s efforts in an Army fire engine and repainted in its original meeting wartime defense and security needs, green color. with almost 1,800 Class 500 Fire Trucks, for Once the Ford-LaFrance is restored, the example, being produced for the Army during macro-artifact will help teach visitors about the war. the innovative efforts used to solve complex The Museum’s Ford-LaFrance brought problems on the Home Front, as well as the many supporters out to this year’s Drafts broad range of occupations and tasks needed to for Crafts, all eager to see her restored to win the war. Throughout the war, the LaFrance former glory. Organized by The National WWII Class 500 Fire Truck—manufactured by Museum’s Young Benefactors, a committee

26 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 27 With PT-305 now fully operational and back on its home waters of Lake Pontchartrain, Drafts for Crafts has shifted its focus to a 1943 Ford- American LaFrance Fire Truck, a macro- artifact in the Museum's collection that will be used to educate the public about service on the American Home Front.

28 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 29 Home Front worker Grace Janota visits her panel in The Arsenal of Soaring Efforts to Democracy exhibit. Grow Museum’s Oral-History Collection

“My uncle Jack was a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress, flying 30 missions over Europe. He was a true inspiration in my life. When he passed away at the age of 90, it was comforting to know that his story was part of the Museum’s oral-history collection, and that he had the opportunity to visit such a remarkable institution."

—Gary Sinise, actor, humanitarian, and Founder of the Gary Sinise Foundation

The heart of the Museum’s mission is to share Valor trip includes a robust tour of the Museum, One of these personal stories was The Soaring Valor trip the full story of the American experience during a hero’s welcome from the local community, collected in 2018 during an unlikely encounter experience includes World War II, from the voices of those who lived entertainment, celebratory meals, and an in the Museum’s newest permanent exhibit, The entertainment, celebratory meals, and through it. From firsthand accounts of Pearl opportunity for connecting with fellow veterans. Arsenal of Democracy. Last spring, a fortunate community building Harbor to the D-Day invasion to the Home Not only do these visits serve as an occasion to group of visitors walking through one of the with fellow heroes. Front, the collection and preservation of these honor and recognize our veterans, but they also exhibit’s galleries received the rare opportunity Students who accompany veterans carry on their invaluable and treasured stories helps expand provide the chance to record their stories so they to interact with an individual featured in that very stories with a new the understanding of the WWII generation’s can be preserved and shared for years to come. gallery. On that special day, 96-year-old Grace appreciation for the sacrifices, which were made to ensure the Since the Museum began its partnership Janota, a former Home Front lathe operator sacrifices made by an entire generation. freedoms we enjoy today. with Soaring Valor in 2015, the program has made who worked at the Consolidated Aircraft plant To collect these oral histories, two Museum the following possible: in Fort Worth, Texas, during the war, was visiting historians travel across America to conduct her panel in the exhibit’s Manufacturing Victory interviews in the homes of WWII veterans, the • 690 oral histories collected by historians gallery, which features a photo of her working at resulting discussion becoming a permanent part sponsored by the Gary Sinise Foundation the lathe making parts for bomber engines. of the Museum’s collection. These stories serve • 14 Soaring Valor flights to the Museum During her visit, Janota was interviewed as an educational tool for Museum audiences, and 62 individual trips, for a total of 392 by Historian Hannah Dailey for the Museum’s whether experienced through its exhibits in New WWII veterans visiting to date oral-history collection, and also met with Orleans or online through its digital collections. Assistant Director for Curatorial Services Kim To help support these efforts, the Gary Sinise In addition to veterans and their guardians, Guise, to whom Janota presented a hammer Foundation—founded by actor and humanitarian the program has also started bringing high school she’d manufactured to add to the Museum’s Gary Sinise—sponsors one of the Museum’s students along for the journey, offering them the collection of wartime artifacts. Following her full-time historians to investigate and pursue unique opportunity to connect with WWII veterans. interview in the gallery, a crowd gathered around possible oral-history leads provided by the To date, over 140 high school students from four Janota to hear her tell stories of her wartime life, Foundation. Through the Foundation’s support, schools have traveled with Soaring Valor. experiencing the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity the Museum is able to continue to grow its With support from donors and partners like to hear an oral history live, in person, and directly existing oral-history outreach program to record the Gary Sinise Foundation, the Museum collected from the source. even more memories of WWII veterans. 293 new personal accounts in Fiscal Year 2018, Stories like Janota’s help the institution In addition to collecting oral histories, with many more stories waiting to be uncovered: offer an intimate, up-close view of the war, the Gary Sinise Foundation partners with the 150 accounts are expected to be added in Fiscal providing visitors with a museum experience like Museum to bring groups of WWII veterans from Year 2019. To date, the Museum’s collection no other. around the country to visit the Museum in New holds nearly 10,000 personal accounts from the Orleans several times every year. The Soaring WWII generation.

30 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 2531 To tell the story of Hope’s major tours and travels during World War II, So Ready for Laughter Museum Debuts features nearly 50 artifacts that draw from the unique collections So Ready for Laughter of the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum and The Special Exhibit National WWII Museum. Highlights include photographs of Hope taken by 8th and 9th Air Forces photographer Charles W. McCracken, which have not been previously published or displayed before this exhibit. “It was the most enjoyment we’ve had—in fact, it is the only one.”

—From a letter written by Andy Stumpf to his mother, Mrs. A.A. Stumpf. Andy served with the First Marine Division and was killed in action on Peleliu soon after seeing Bob Hope’s troupe perform.

During World War II, the entire country include a free film series in BB’s Stage Door BOB HOPE PUBLIC sought to mobilize every available resource Canteen featuring classic Bob Hope films, PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS in the united effort to defeat our enemies. in addition to unique daytime and evening American Masters: This Is Bob Hope . . . These endeavors also involved many famous programs—from a family miniature golf Hollywood figures who were anxious to tournament to a comedy-writing workshop— —October 12, 2017 contribute to the war effort. One entertainer that spotlight Hope’s lasting impact on in particular—radio and film star Bob Hope— American popular culture. BB’s Stage Door Canteen’s took his talents on the road to military camps After closing at the Museum in February On the Road with Bob Hope & Friends and bases across the country and then around 2019, So Ready for Laughter hits the road as —October 13 - November 26, 2017 the world to perform for what became his most a traveling exhibit that will tour the country, cherished audience: American troops. bringing Hope’s WWII story to audiences in as Bob Hope Film Series, featuring: To explore Hope’s unique place in the many as 10 cities over a three-year period. Caught in the Draft history of World War II and beyond, and the —May 14, 2018 contributions he made that still reverberate more than 70 years later, the Museum brought My Favorite Blonde his story to life on the evening of May 24, —June 11, 2018 2018, when it opened its special exhibit, So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Monsieur Beaucaire Hope. To celebrate the exhibit’s opening, the —June 25, 2018 Museum welcomed more than 400 guests for a presentation and reception in the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion with special guest speakers Dinner with a Curator: Kim Guise presents Linda Hope, daughter of Bob and Dolores Hope “On the Road with Bob Hope” and Chair/CEO of the Bob & Dolores Hope —June 26, 2018 Foundation, and Kim Guise, Museum Assistant Director for Curatorial Services. Following the opening of So Ready for Laughter, the Museum launched a diverse series of free public programs to complement the exhibit, all supported by the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation, with special thanks to the World Golf Hall of Fame & Museum. Programs

32 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 33 BOB & DOLORES HOPE Linda Hope, daughter FOUNDATION of Bob and Dolores Hope, visits the Museum’s special exhibit that honors her father’s wartime legacy.

American entertainer Bob Hope was one of the most significant stars of the 20th century, and his tireless commitment to supporting the men and women who served our country epitomizes the best of what our nation can be. Hope’s legacy is central to the story of World War II and vital to the lessons that The National WWII Museum teaches each day. Recognizing this natural partnership, the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation began collaborating with the Museum in 2016 to introduce a comprehensive Bob Hope legacy program across and beyond the Museum’s campus. While the Museum’s special exhibit on Hope’s unique contribution to the American war effort, So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope, is the capstone of these efforts, numerous other initiatives have shared Hope’s spirit of levity and patriotism with visitors young and old. The annual Bob & Dolores Hope Summer Theater Camp has helped children aged 8–12 hone their skills in theater arts, while the Museum’s Skype in the Classroom program, A Call to Service: Bob Hope in World War II, has taught students across the world about the contributions of the Home Front during the war. The Bob Hope Dog Tag Experience has allowed visitors to experience Hope’s inspiring WWII journey while immersed in the Museum’s world-class exhibits, and the Bob & Dolores Hope Tickets for Troops program continues to provide free admission for veterans and their companions to shows at BB’s Stage Door Canteen. Additionally, an endowment from the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation ensures that the songs, style, stars, and spirit of the WWII era are brought to life each day through the Museum’s entertainment series.

34 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 35 The Museum Breaks Ground on The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center

“The one man in the South I want especially to see is Andrew Jackson Higgins. I want to tell him, face to face, that Higgins’s landing boats such as we had at Guadalcanal are the best in the world. They do everything but talk; honest, they do.”

—Warrant Officer Machinist James D. Fox, quoted inThe Shreveport Times, March 6, 1943

Andrew Jackson Higgins, On December 8, 2017, the Museum and its Board the innovative New Orleans boatbuilder of Trustees officially broke ground on The Higgins Dwight Eisenhower once Hotel & Conference Center—a luxurious property credited with winning that will feature 230 guest rooms and more than World War II. 18,000 square feet of conference space. Scheduled for completion in 2019, the development will support the institution’s expanding educational programs while offering Museum visitors accessible accommodations in the booming Warehouse District neighborhood. The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center’s name reflects the contributions of the extraordinary entrepreneur Andrew Jackson Higgins, who designed and built over 20,000 boats in New Orleans that were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II. The unique property will be inspired by the war era and feature a striking art deco style designed by renowned architects Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates from Coral Gables, Florida, and Los Angeles interior design firm Kay Lang + Associates. The Higgins Hotel will operate as part of the exclusive Curio Collection by Hilton, one of Hilton’s 14 market-leading brands. The daily operations of the privately-funded project will be managed by Hostmark Hospitality Group, and hotel revenue will help fund the growth of the Museum’s endowment and educational initiatives. The Museum looks forward to guests having the opportunity to enhance their visitor experience when the property celebrates its grand opening later this year.

36 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 37 The Higgins Hotel DAVID NIERENBERG will be located on The National WWII Museum’s campus at the corner of Andrew Higgins Drive and Magazine Street. Scheduled for completion in 2019, the property will operate as part of the exclusive Curio Collection by Hilton, one of Hilton’s 14 market- leading brands.

For Museum Trustee David Nierenberg, honoring the memory of the WWII generation serves as a personal tribute to his loved ones who fought bravely in World War II. Nierenberg’s father, Ted, and his uncles, Jay and David, volunteered to serve during the war— Ted and David served in the US Navy in the Pacific theater, and Jay joined the American Field Service as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy. Although the brothers faced danger on land and sea, their stories ended happily. At war’s end, Ted and David enjoyed an improbable reunion as their ships berthed together in Tokyo Bay, and Jay survived his service as an ambulance driver, and married a Holocaust survivor he met while in North Africa— Inge Gutenberg—who escaped Germany the day of Anschluss. Hearing his father’s and uncles’ stories from the war is an experience that Nierenberg hopes will continue for future generations. His wife Patricia also had three uncles who served in the war—John, Mario, and Andy Cambou—all born in the United States to 20th century French immigrants. “The Museum transforms the lessons of the past into guideposts for our future,” he said. “If we do not remain vigilant and prepared to fight for our freedoms—and if we do not lead the fight—we will dishonor the life lessons of our parents and grandparents.” In addition to supporting the Museum’s endowment and educational mission, Nierenberg played a significant role in the Museum’s expansion endeavors through his efforts in spearheading a matching gift program in 2017 to kick-start fundraising for The Higgins Hotel & Conference Center. He also chairs the Museum Board’s investment committee and serves on the institution’s long-term strategic revisioning task force to develop plans for engaging future generations on the lessons of the war. “It’s important that we continue to educate all youth and adults that freedom is precious and worth fighting for,” he said. “This is why funding educational programs at the Museum is so tremendously important.”

38 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 39 The Bollinger Canopy of Ron and Becky Parker of Cornelius, North discipline that inspired and motivated me to war effort on the Home Front taught me much Peace is made possible Carolina, have been Patriots Circle Members since ‘keep on keeping on’ regardless of obstacles,” about the importance of serving our country, our through a generous 2009. After many travel tours on the beaches of Ron continued. neighbors, friends, or strangers, whether it’s during 2015 gift from longtime Normandy, reading Stephen Ambrose and Tom Becky’s dad, Lewis K. “Kenny” Phillips, the crisis of war or simply reaching out to those Museum Trustee Donald Brokaw, and watching contemporary films like T. “Boysie” Bollinger was 14 years old in 1942 when he started working in need.” She remains very proud that her father (shown in photo standing Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, they at what became known as “Atomic City” in Oak served his country on the Home Front and that he center) and his wife, knew they wanted to be part of documenting and Ridge, Tennessee—a production site for the played such an important part in ending the war. Joy (shown in photo). preserving the stories of the WWII generation, and Manhattan Project. “Daddy literally worked from The Parkers continue to support the Museum Designed by Voorsanger The National WWII Museum hit all those marks. the ground up, helping to build the roads and through Patriots Circle because they understand Mathes LLC, the Canopy Ron’s stepfather, John Johnson Jr., served dormitories, driving laundry trucks in the huge the urgency to capture the oral histories of those on will stand as the crown jewel over the as a Corporal in the 123rd US Army Air Forces complex of 70,000 workers, and helping construct the battlefront and the Home Front. “We appreciate campus, transforming in the European theater. While in Europe, he four of the major industrial facilities,” said Becky. The National WWII Museum for glorifying the the Museum’s visitor performed the invaluable service of cooking “He later became a machinist apprentice and fighters, not the fight,” concluded Ron. experience. and preparing meals for thousands of American worked his way up to the position of foreman at the troops. “My stepfather returned home to Plymouth Y-12 plant for enriching uranium, the K-25 uranium County, Massachusetts, in 1945, applying those separating facility, and X-10 nuclear reactor.” skills that he first learned in the cooks’ and bakers’ Phillips retired from Oak Ridge and passed schools in Fort Lee, Virginia,” said Ron. “I learned away at age 83, the oldest survivor of his unit. Like from him the importance of doing meaningful most Tennesseans who worked in Oak Ridge, also work, earning a good living, and being a respected, known by the nickname “Secret City,” he died still reputable citizen.” holding many secrets of his work on the Manhattan Johnson also worked as a public servant Project. Although Becky’s father was too young and volunteer, becoming an example of citizenship to enlist during World War II, she explains that to his family. “It was John’s work ethic and self- her father’s “patriotism to do something for the

Tommy and Eugenia Lind Bert Silger Turner, WWII Veteran Matthew S. and Julianne L. Brott John Porter Stevens, WWII Veteran Construction begins on The Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust Mr. Charles L. Valluzzo Mr. Kim Brown James F. Dicke II the Bollinger Canopy of Lt. Col. Charles Everett, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Wolf George Brown, WWII Veteran Dimension Development Two, LLC Peace as the first pieces Paul Hilliard, WWII Veteran Ens. N. Clifford Wolf, WWII KIA John Croup, WWII Veteran Mr. William Dinis of zinc-coated steel The John J. McArdle III Gerard and Martha Wyrsch Mr. John J. Brunetti Richard A. Simmons, WWII Veteran arrive to the Museum’s and Joan Creamer McArdle Foundation F. Richard "Dick" Brown Joseph Prisco, Jr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dobbs III campus. The steel is Alfred and Elizabeth Montalvo Cpt. Fred R. Wyrsch, WWII Veteran Colin K. and Kerry Hendon Buell Ms. Susan Dorsch part of the structure’s Adolph Hanslik, WWII Veteran CPT Justin Parker Buell, OEF Veteran Robert Ewing, WWII Veteran massive 825-ton frame- Alfred Montalvo, WWII Veteran L. G. Brown, WWII Veteran Mr. Vincent Errante, WWII Veteran and-truss system. Dan M. Morgan Marvin G. Kleypas, WWII Veteran LTC Randy Everson, USA (Ret.) Assembly of the Canopy is Michael and Jovette T. Mosing Ralph L. Buell, Jr., WWII Veteran 1LT Lynn A. Everson, USA, scheduled for completion Mrs. Dorothy Duval Nelson TWO STAR Loyal Brown, Vietnam War Veteran WWII Veteran in 2019—making it a Claude B. Duval, WWII Veteran Walter Lee Hendon, Jr., WWII Veteran LTJG Bartlett S. Everson, USN, towering addition to the Haig Papaian Ron and Karen Adams Ralph L. Buell III WWII Veteran New Orleans skyline. John U. Parolo Louis John Arbizzani William G. Stokes, WWII Veteran Mr. Dean T. Falgoust Jan and Rich Pattarozzi Mrs. Donna M. Asbill Texas R. Flaniken, WWII Veteran Stephen George Dolese, Jr., Dr. Carl D. Peterson H. T. (Hank) Miser, WWII Veteran Burglass Family WWII Veteran Ken Meyer, WWII Veteran Oral Jackson Asbill, WWII Veteran Ms. Lynne Burkart J. B. Falgoust, WWII Veteran John and Lynn Raber Humphrey Atherton Harold Beaucoudray, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Farnsworth Mr. Dick Arnold, WWII Veteran Ms. Kathleen Ausley George Fank, WWII Veteran Mr. James H. Frauenberg Dr. Paul Raber, WWII Veteran Col. Jack Reiter, WWII Veteran Drs. Frank and Carolyn Burns E. J. Connelley, WWII Veteran Mr. H. Lewis Rapaport Captain Stephen M. Bailey Francis R. Burns, M.D., WWII Veteran Loretta Frauenberg, WWII Veteran Stanley Rapaport, WWII Home Front W. W. Stout, WWII Veteran John B. Carter Howard Frauenberg, WWII Veteran Arnold Strauch, WWII Veteran William P. Bakel, WWII Veteran MSgt. Johnie T. Carter, WWII Veteran Robert and Dolores Freidenrich Ms. Diana Rathborne Rod Baker and Peggy Pitre Mr. Harvey R. Chaplin Anita Blum, WWII Veteran J. C. Rathborne, WWII Veteran A. Frederick Banfield Sidney Chaplin, WWII Veteran John Hatem, Vietnam War Veteran H. A. Wilmerding, WWII Veteran Ms. Andree Barsodi Dorothy M. Clyne Sam Newman, WWII Veteran J. C. Rathborne III, WWII Home Front John Michael Barsodi, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Coffey Pam Davis Friedler Mr. and Mrs. Rex E. Ritchie James W. and Peggy A. Beisner Tyrone J. Collins, M.D. Arthur Q. Davis, WWII Veteran Walter Harris, WWII Veteran CPT William A. Beisner, USA Dr. Limone C. Collins, Sr., WWII Veteran Marcus Frost Harvey E. Rothenberg Dr. Steven G. and Brenda Beliel Dr. Donald Clausing and Dr. Shirley Colomb Daniel Preston Frost, US Army Air Corps, Joseph N. Rothenberg, WWI Veteran Major Theodore A. Bell, USAF (Ret.) Charles Earl Colomb, Sr., WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Robert Rothenberg, WWII Veteran Lawrence Berkowitz Merlin Louis Clausing, Sr., Rodney Brubaker, US Army Air Corps, Capt. James S. Russell, WWII Veteran Samuel Berkowitz, M.D., WWII Veteran WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Lt. William H. Russell, WWII Veteran Paul Blackney Mr. and Mrs. David A. Cowan Clifford Alton Frost, WWII Veteran Col. Douglas Tilley, WWII Veteran Emanuel Blessey Terry Craig Kenneth Blacklidge, WWII Veteran Maj. William Tilley, WWII Veteran Harold J. Bouillion Jeff and Wendy Dahlgren Jim and Sherree Funk Mr. Michael H. Russell John and Bonnie Boyd Mr. and Mrs. James D. Dake Lawrence and Ashley Garcia Harold C. Russell, WWII Home Front CAPT Ronald W. Branch, USCG (Ret.), George H. Lester, Jr., WWII Veteran Mr. Joseph P. Gehegan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Rutledge WWII Veteran Dorothy "Dot" W. Lester, WWII Veteran Mrs. Elaine Goldsmith The Wilson Sexton Foundation SSGT Frankie Joseph Jindra, USAAF Paul G. Dake, WWII Veteran Bram Goldsmith, WWII Veteran Mr. John G. Turner and Mr. Jerry G. Fischer (Ret.), WWII Veteran Laura Devendorf LTC and Mrs. Ronald M. Guiberson

40 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 45 The Museum’s Electronic Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Bert S. Turner, WWII Veteran RON AND BECKY PARKER Family Foundation André F. Villenevue Field Trips are FOUR STAR DONORS streamed directly into Hancock Whitney Bank Mr. and Mrs. St. Denis J. Villere classrooms—no special FOUR STAR Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hayes Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. A Second Shipbuilder Leaves The Museum’s Outreach technology required. Tom Blakey, WWII Veteran Rob and Mary Ward Focusing on the national Anne and Herschel Abbott Adrea D. Heebe Stephen and Gina Watson impact of World War Richard C. Adkerson Warren G. Herreid II and Jeannine M. Rivet Ted and Jennifer Weggeland His Mark on the Museum Initiatives Inspire a II, students embark on Ryan Adkerson Arthur Hershey and Sharon Linkletter Mrs. John G. Weinmann a cross-country tour Mr. Dwight W. Anderson Madlyn and Paul Hilliard Lt. William Howard Taft, WWII Veteran New Home Front Generation of historic sites while AT&T Mr. William H. Hines Cpt. Joseph Daniel Tompkins, examining fascinating Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Augustine International Matex Tank Terminals WWII Veteran Charles L. Jarvie artifacts and exhibits. Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Berger Mr. and Mrs. Bruce N. Whitman Ms. Jacklyn Bezos Mr. Kelly Kenneth Jay Governor Christine T. Whitman Lawrence Preston Gise, WWII Veteran Lori Kneeppel Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson Hon. John Kenneth Blackwell Jeffrey and Katherine Knittel 2nd Lt. Wayne Hoffman, USMC, Boysie and Joy Bollinger Charles W. Knittel, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran James LeBlanc, WWII Veteran Mr. John E. Koerner III Cpl. James B. Wilson, Jr., USN, Richard N. Bollinger, WWII Veteran H. Merritt Lane III WWII Veteran George A. Bollinger, WWII Veteran 1st LT Frank Golemi, USAAF, WWII Veteran 1st Lt. James B. Wilson, Bourgeois Bennett, LLC Drew Leander MO National Guard, WWII Veteran Mr. Jack O. Bovender, Jr. Louise and Hank Leander MGen Kenneth J. Houghton, USNR, “We Americans walk big, we talk big, we think big….We think up Hampton Foreman, USA, WWII Veteran Lieutenant Jack Heise, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran James G. Bovender, USMC, WWII KIA 1st Lieutenant John H. Ford, WWII Veteran RADM Leslie E. Gehres, USA, giants. American giants still walk the American earth….This giant’s Jack O. Bovender, Sr., USMC, Lieutenant Sr. Grade William Mosey, WWII Veteran name is Andrew Jackson Higgins.” WWII Veteran US Navy Air Corps, WWII Veteran LCDR. Herbert G. Klein, USMC, Raymond J. Brandt Alan Leventhal WWII Veteran Anthony and Karen Buckingham Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Smith Lupo LGen Joseph C. Fegan, Jr., USMC, —From a Radio Reader’s Digest program referenced in Jerry Strahan’s Kenneth A. Schutt, WWII Veteran Mr. Edward C. Mathes WWII Veteran LeRoy H. F. Schutt, WWII Veteran Jimmy and Lillian Maurin book Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II The Family of Philip J. Burguieres Mr. and Mrs. Markham R. McKnight Mr. Michael S. Bylen The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Daryl G. Byrd and Kara Van de Carr Robert W. Merrick James Clement III Suzanne T. and Michael J. Mestayer THREE STAR Paul Hilliard, WWII Veteran J. Edgar Monroe Foundation Ben Glusing , WWII Veteran Morris Family Foundation Nelson Abell III Family Mr. Louis P. Cluster Dr. and Mrs. Gordon "Nick" Mueller Nelson D. Abell, WWII Veteran Alvin Peyton Cluster, WWII Veteran Dennis A. Muilenburg Lucius G. Hughes, WWI Veteran Henry L. Coaxum, Jr. Walter Negley Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Anderson Lori and Gregg Cohen, Shannon Mr. David Nierenberg Ross and Denise Anderson and Jacob Maxwell Mr. Mark Packard Norman James Parr, WWII Veteran Cecil Orlando Black, WWII Veteran Mark W. Norman, WWII Home Front Leon Ross, WWII Veteran Dan K. Fordice, Sr., WWII Veteran On June 6, 2018, The National WWII Museum experiences, students visited the Museum’s The Museum’s educational outreach Ken Copper Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Neill W. T. Ross, WWII Veteran Mr. John J. Frezza The groundbreaking ceremony for the Bollinger craft that made it possible for Allied forces to nighttime landmark for New Orleans. The visitor Harold Buckingham, WWII Home Front Ron and Becky Parker Alan P. "Pat" and Angela Bernard James Donato, WWII Veteran Canopy of Peace was held outdoors at the successfully invade enemy-held beaches in experience of standing beneath the Canopy of commemorated the 74th anniversary of the newest permanent exhibit The Arsenal of efforts also expanded through additional online Hubert Eugene "Cop" Copper, John E. Johnson, Jr., WWII Veteran Dr. Jeanne Bonar Michael J. Garcia, M.D. Museum’s campus on March 28, 2018. The iconic Europe, North Africa, and across the Pacific. It is Peace will be a new memorable moment in a city D-Day invasion at Normandy and celebrated the Democracy; learned about racial tensions and programs, from Virtual Field Trips to webinars WWII Veteran Lewis K. Phillips, WWII Home Front Sgt. Robert Hensley, WWII Veteran Melbern G. Glasscock 18th anniversary of its opening as The National discrimination during the war at The Rosie the to Skype programs, all incorporating stories Louis J. Lohrenz, WWII Veteran Bobby and Debbie Patrick Miss Cindy S. Boyd Bryan Glasscock, WWII Veteran structure, scheduled for completion in 2019, will because of Higgins that the Museum is located in renowned for creating so many of them. James A. Courter Pecora Family Ferrell Boyd, WWII Veteran Mr. Barry Gossett rise 148 feet above the center of the Museum’s New Orleans, and it is largely because of D-Day Museum in 2000. In just 18 years, the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical about the Home Front’s challenges and victories. Gary Cox Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Priddy Bernard Koether, WWII Veteran Joe B. Gossett, WWII Veteran architecturally distinctive campus, bringing all Bollinger that it became a reality, his legacy to Museum has grown from a single exhibit hall to a Park in Richmond, California; and even got to Programs included a live video conference Clifford L. Hammond, WWII Veteran Ed and Pam Quinn Herbert Koether, WWII Veteran Mary Beth Graves of the buildings together in a way that embraces become a permanent fixture on a finishing piece multipavilion institution with global impact. These interact with a Newbery Honor-winning author on the nation’s rationing and war production Jack Ogilvie, WWII Veteran MSGT. Charles D. McGehee, WWII Veteran Martin Koether, WWII Veteran Frank O' Connor, WWII Veteran efforts have not only shaped and expanded about her newest novel on race and war in efforts, and even a webinar on WWII innovation Robert V. Jones, WWII Veteran Dr. Patrice K. Richardson James Templeton, WWII Veteran Brenda and Gregory Hamer Family the stories told of the American experience in of the campus. Harold Ray Stevens, WWII Veteran Edgel W. Richardson, WWII Veteran Maj. General H. Lloyd Wilkerson, Bob and Nancy Hayter World War II. The Canopy—a steel lattice framework the institution’s exhibits and galleries for visitors, WWII-era New Orleans. Although each student’s and problem solving. Collectively, the Museum’s Mr. and Mrs. R. Randolph Richmond, Jr. A. J. Letheo, WWII Veteran Hulen G. Havens, WWII Veteran USMC, WWII Veteran Made possible through a generous 2015 supporting Teflon-coated fiberglass panels—will but have also taken the Museum experience to destination may have been different, they all distance-learning reach in Fiscal Year 2018 Ralph and Marjorie Crump R. Randolph Richmond, Jr., WWII Veteran Robert A. Moore, Jr., WWII Veteran SSG Al Mampre, US Army, WWII Veteran new frontiers of learning and access beyond embarked on their learning journey in the same was momentous: A total of 62,675 students Constance Crump and Peter Najar Todd Ricketts William C. Buck Russell A. and Betty Joan Hitt gift from local shipbuilder Donald T. “Boysie” be 482 feet long and 134 feet wide, held aloft by Craig and Ellen Crump Melvyn S. Rifkind, WWII Veteran James Mahlon Buck, Jr., WWII Veteran Donald Kershaw Elliott, WWII Veteran Bollinger and his wife, Joy, the Canopy will help four steel legs anchored in more than 1,260 cubic its campus. vehicle: their classrooms. participated, which included 4,356 Virtual Field Jill and Jed Davis S. Melvin Rines, WWII Veteran Rusty and Sue Burnett Ernest Roland Davis, WWII Veteran transform the arrival experience to the Museum yards of concrete. Through on-site and online Museum- As a leading educational resource, the Trip, 6,664 Skype program, 11,539 webinar, and David and Rosemarie DeVido Pam and Mark Rubin Raymond Otis Burnett, WWII Veteran John "Johnny" Cleveland Campbell, Jr., produced educational programs, thousands of core of the Museum’s mission is to inform and 40,116 Electronic Field Trip learners. Through Johann Stirnimann, WWII Veteran Mr. Jack D. Samuelson, WWII Veteran Joe Decker Walk, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran by creating a magnificent entryway, instantly The structure’s first massive steel Joseph L. DeVido, WWII Veteran Joe and Kathy Sanderson LTJG Leroy L. Carver, Jr., USNR (Ret.), E. Galt and Helen D. Davis, conveying the size of the campus and the soaring elements were delivered to the Museum campus educators and learners across the country have empower today’s young citizens so they can these connections to history, the lessons of Beatrice Schoenfeld DeVido, Phil and Jennifer Satre Family Charitable WWII Veteran WWII Home Front significance of its purpose. just a few days ahead of the groundbreaking engaged in a variety of WWII subjects. These understand the price of freedom and be inspired America’s WWII Home Front will continue to WWII Home Front Fund at the Community Foundation of CAPT Leroy L. Carver, USNR (Ret.), William Otis Elliott, WWII Veteran programs range from webinars to summer by what they learn. From distance-learning shape and inspire future generations. Brigitta Stirnimann, WWII Veteran Western Nevada WWI, WWII, and Korean War Veteran James Lawson Elliott, WWII Veteran “I’ve always said that we are going to build event. The steel is zinc-coated and made Dick and Judi Duchossois Dr. Bobby and Mrs. Lori Savoie Charles Foundation, Inc. Warren A. and Myrtle L. Hitt, a world-class museum,” said longtime Museum up of a frame-and-truss system that’s been teaching institutes to award-winning national initiatives to a teaching institute for educators, George Duchossois, WWII Veteran Joe and Debbie Schell Robert Rooke WWII Home Front advocate and Board Trustee Bollinger back in wind-tunnel tested to exceed American Electronic Field Trips. To make these endeavors the Museum brought the stories of the Home R. L. Duchossois, WWII Veteran Peggy Sewell Martin Clement II, Melinda Clement Carol Holding possible, the Museum’s Charter Members have Front to life through the voices of those who Albert Duchossois, WWII Veteran Mr. Archibald Thomas Higgins, Jr., and Martin Clement III Robert Earl Holding, WWII Veteran 2015, his gift marking the largest private donation Society of Civil Engineers safety standards to The Arv and Carol Fisher Charitable Fund WWII Veteran Angus R. Cooper II Ralph Pollard Holding, WWII Veteran in the Museum’s history. “Stephen Ambrose withstand the most extreme tropical weather. helped support the institution’s expansion, as experienced it. During the fiscal year, more than Arvold O. Fisher, WWII Home Front Dr. Margaret Sharp Dr. and Mrs. James T. Coy III Mr. John Huss convinced me that this Museum was going to last Structural Engineer Thornton Tomasetti, who well as its educational outreach efforts. Through 40,000 students took part in the institution’s live The Alta and John Franks Foundation SSgt. David Sharp, WWII Veteran Wilson Bond, Jr., WWII Veteran John A. Johnson for generations. My attitude is that we are going commissioned the testing, has worked to our Members’ ongoing support to increase interactive Electronic Field Trip Fighting for the John Franks, WWII Veteran Mr. Robert V. Siebel Sgt. James F. Clark, WWII Veteran Dr. David G. and Vesta Jones student and teacher access to the Museum’s Right to Fight: African American Experiences Mr. and Mrs. Louis Freeman Mr. and Mrs. David W. Smith Lt. Col. Richard E. Conner III, Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Jones to take a little longer (to complete the campus) optimize the performance of structures including Dathel and John Georges James Elon Smithey, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Keith, Jr. but we are going to do it right, and we’re going to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the educational resources, the legacy and lessons in World War II— 2018 winner of a Silver Telly Mr. Frank Godchaux III Roy Gardner Smith, WWII Home Front James Tandy Coy, Jr., WWII Veteran Lt. Cmdr. Robert E. Keith, WWII Veteran build it to last.” US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, and the San of the WWII generation will continue to inspire Award for online general education—and 30 Charles Ragland Godchaux Wiley Floyd Smith, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. A. Dano Davis Ms. Carolyn Kelly future generations. teachers enrolled to participate in the Museum’s Goldring Family Foundation / Louie Lee Smith, WWII Veteran Charles Douglas Gholson, WWII Veteran Frederick William Deuser, WWII Veteran Bollinger’s remarkable career in shipbuilding Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Woldenberg Foundation Mr. Phillip Staples Col. Mitchell Paige, WWII Veteran Emmett Eugene McEvoy, WWII Veteran and his bold reputation as an entrepreneur often In the midday sun, the towering, bright- In Fiscal Year 2018, students across Summer Teacher Institute seminar focused The Charles W. and Elizabeth D. Mr. Henry Swieca Mary Lee and Bill Dixon Mr. Brian M. Kincaid prompt comparisons to a famous WWII-era white Canopy will serve as a beacon to visitors the country gained newfound knowledge on the Home Front, their future discoveries to Goodyear Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Thomas H. Michael England Mr. and Mrs. Jack T. Lengsfield about the struggles and triumphs of the 116 contribute to the Institute’s growing impact, Bradley Goodyear, Jr., WWII Veteran Jimmie B. Gunter, WWII Veteran Harry M. England, USCG, WWII Veteran Jack T. Lengsfield, WWII Veteran boatbuilder, Andrew Jackson Higgins. Higgins and locals alike; after sundown, a state-of-the- Capt. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gruber, Garland L. Thomas, WWII Veteran Tina Santi Flaherty Hsiu-Mei A. Lin Industries in New Orleans took the lead in art lighting system will transform the Canopy million Americans who experienced the war which will reach 2,700 teachers and over USA (Ret.) Mr. Thomas H. Turner Dan and Ann Claire Fordice Anchung R. Lin, WWII Veteran producing thousands of the flat-bottomed landing and its support legs into a stunning new on the Home Front. Through various learning 140,000 students by the end of Fiscal Year 2019.

2018 ANNUAL REPORT 43 44 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 41 42 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM In Fiscal Year 2019, the VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS SKYPE PROGRAMS CHARTER MEMBERS ALASKA BRITISH COLUMBIA GUAM HAWAII PUERTO RICO OTHER Museum will debut its newest Electronic Field Fiscal Year 2018 238 8 5 506 47 381 Trip commemorating 4 2 6 the 75th anniversary of Distance Learning 115 205 176,000+ 3 2 the D-Day invasion at Normandy. Sessions Sessions The staunch support of over 176,000 Charter by the Numbers Members is the foundation of The National WWII Museum’s growth. Their loyalty throughout Fiscal 4,356 6,664 Year 2018 exemplifies a strong commitment to the mission of America’s National WWII Museum. Students Students 3,223 838 Combined, our Members provided the 14 2 Museum with over $10 million in operating revenue 15 5 to help fund educational programming and 421 preservation initiatives. As we continue our efforts 640 3 1 917 to expand the Museum, their commitment and 1 5 generosity are an inspiration. 3,057 3 11 WWII veterans helped establish this 416 2,157 15 10,595 4,249 1 Museum. With the passage of time, the torch has 5 50 15 481 3,421 passed to the sons and daughters of our treasured 9 24 9 WWII veterans—Americans who are invested in 691 1 14 2 13 5,021 ensuring that their family’s contribution to our 2 660 1 12 2,655 1 collective history and the war that changed the 358 15 12 3 2 world is preserved for all future generations. 8,489 8 1 Thank you to all of our Members across the 24 5,658 1,885 country for supporting The National WWII Museum. 34 21 6 899 36 15 6,602 4 14 673 9 3,261 1,090 7,480 30 2 9 298 2 28 15 3,975 3 4 53 877 5,171 22 943 3,012 3 8 36 12 29 1,941 9 7 1,634 3,413 30 PATRIOTS CIRCLE 7 7 16,876 8 21 12 112 15 21 110 1,100+ 4,606 16 3,241 Among the most loyal supporters of The National 21 58 WWII Museum, Patriots Circle Members contributed 13 1,805 $2.7 million to the Museum in Fiscal Year 2018— 5 2,292 3,246 1,423 an all-time record, which reflects an astonishing 906 14 8 18 9 commitment to the institution’s mission. 6 65 11 11 WEBINARS In addition to their financial support— 7 which ranges between $1,000 and $10,000 2,203 2,883 4,080 annually—these Members are exceptional in 19 15 25 11,539 their involvement with the Museum. Many serve 22 45 59 Students on various committees, act as sponsors for the 11,912 Museum’s fundraising events, participate in 11,208 234 the Museum’s travel programs, and attend The 136 137 FIGHTING FOR 68 THE RIGHT TO FIGHT International Conference on World War II. They ELECTRONIC FIELD TRIP serve as national ambassadors for the institution. We remain honored by the 1,118 Patriots 12,003 Circle Members who supported the Museum from 88 40,116 across the country in Fiscal Year 2018. Among 49 Students those are 57 Members of the Museum’s Board of Trustees and two staff members who are Four Star Patriots Circle Members. Their generosity is evidence of the importance of understanding the American experience in World War II and honoring TOTAL the generation who sacrificed so much to secure

our freedom. CHARTER MEMBERS Thank you to all of our Patriots Circle PATRIOTS CIRCLE 62,675 Members for demonstrating the American spirit CLASSROOMS ENGAGED IN FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO FIGHT Students through their generous and continued giving. ELECTRONIC FIELD TRIP EDUCATORS ENROLLED IN FISCAL YEAR 2018 HOME FRONT TEACHER INSTITUTE

2018 ANNUAL REPORT H. LEWIS “LEW” RAPAPORT Lew Rapaport describes himself as having always across the sea. He didn’t share these details with Richard Fradkin, WWII Veteran Mr. Frederick Charles Abbott Mr. and Mrs. John D. Becker Rebecca A. Glueck, WWII Veteran Henry W. Robertson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Scott LeGrant Beech THREE STAR DONOR been a patriot and a historian—studying our us then, but we were all proud of him. He even Mrs. Anne Abendschein Charles E. Brown, Sr., WWII Veteran country’s founding fathers to the present. He received a letter from Britain’s Ministry of War Boone N. Ruff, WWII Veteran Paul Abendschein, WWII Veteran Albert L. Beekly, WWII Home Front Mr. Irwin Jay Brown William R. Jackson, WWII Veteran Joseph M. Accurso, M.D. Bill Beekly, WWII Veteran Wesley W. Brumback served as a lieutenant in the US Army during the Transport recognizing his contribution during Tammy and Mike Rocker and Mrs. B. Renee Accurso Jack Beekly, WWII Veteran Mr. Ernest P. Bruno early 1960s and was a graduate of the US Army those turbulent times.” Eduardo E. Rodriguez, M.D. Mr. Harry Dutko, WWII Veteran Olin Wyatt, WWII Veteran Mrs. Frank S. Bruno Artillery and Missile School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Rapaport first became involved with The Tony Rosenthal and Ruth Ganister Mr. Sherlock A. "Skip" Herrick, Jr., Mr. Larry R. Belcaster Frank S. Bruno, WWII Veteran Family and service to country have always National WWII Museum to honor those in his Pauline Wexelblatt, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Rocco Antonelli, WWII KIA George and Rebecca Bryant Ranlet Shelden Bell been important to Rapaport. He grew up in the family who fought, and also those who served Daniel J. Ganister, WWII Veteran Ms. Donna Adam George B. Bryant, Jr., WWII Veteran Murray Rosenthal, WWII Veteran Col. Fae M. Adams (Ret.) Virginia Durand Shelden Murphy C. Bryles Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York, their country at home, just like his father. “There Nancy E. Leavesley, WWII Home Front Jim and Robin Adams William Warren Shelden, WWII Veteran Mr. William Buckner where the entire Rapaport family was involved in were many unsung heroes who gave of themselves Ms. Jean Schlenker Bud Adams, WWII Veteran Dr. William M. and Sandra Bennett General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., World War II. With two nephews in the US Army during this period to help our nation who were not Ervin Schlenker, WWII Veteran Ms. Susan Aguiar Harry Bennett, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran and his uncle serving on a destroyer in the US in uniform,” said Rapaport. Arnold R. Schlenker, WWII Veteran John Arruda, WWII Veteran Leonard George Ayre, WWII Veteran Mrs. Tove I. Burhen Mrs. Elaine B. Benningfield Navy, Rapaport’s family remained proud of their “I support The National WWII Museum Robert E. Schmidt Julene P. Ailshie Raymond Chester Burhen, WWII Veteran Sgt. Edward Hampton Schmidt, Airbus Americas John Delma Bunch, WWII Veteran MSGT and Mrs. Peter D. Burland military service. through the Patriots Circle because I believe WWII Veteran Barbara Akins Robert K. Henson, WWII Veteran Ms. Terri L. Burton “My father, Stanley Rapaport, was an it is the shore station of our democracy and a Glenn W. Rulle, WWII Veteran Billy Tom Akins, WWII Veteran Joseph Elma Bunch, WWII Veteran Mr. Robert L. Byers architect and was contacted by our State continuing remembrance of those who fought and Marge and Tom Schueck Donald S. Akins Mr. Ronald Berenstain Al Hoffman, WWII Veteran Department for a special assignment,” said died, as well as those Home Front warriors who Arthur Moeslein, WWII Veteran Doug and Mary Albert Julian W. Berenstain, WWII Veteran Ms. Priscilla Cabell Floyd H. Furkerson, Jr., WWII Veteran Gary and Helen Bergren Rapaport. “Dad moved us to Norfolk, Virginia, gave of themselves to win the battle and preserve Mr. Thomas J. Alexander Lt. Col. John Bell Cabell, WWII Veteran Frederick P. Stratton, Jr. Mrs. Christine Allen Harley E. Bergren, WWII Veteran Robert Louis Cabes and his new job was to redesign and camouflage our freedom,” he concluded. Scotty Bamford, WWII Veteran Philip Elsworth Allen, WWII Veteran Mr. Thomas E. Berk George Joseph Fanning, WWII Veteran ships that were going back and forth to England to Tracy N. Gordon, Vietnam War Veteran Ms. Gloria Alvarez Thomas R. Grace Louis Jacob Cabes, WWII Veteran carry troops and munitions to the battlefront. The Jim and Donna Sublett David Alonzo Truman, WWII Veteran Richard T. Gibson Craig L. and Suzanne E. Caesar US Navy had to disguise the ships with different Fred Dickenson, WWII Veteran Mr. John Amato Mr. J. Anderson Berly III J. Fred Caesar, WWII Veteran Mr. Ronald Tarrson Joel A. Berly, Jr., WWII Veteran silhouettes so that the German submarines would John G. Amato Guy Caffey MSGT Mort Oman, WWII Veteran Virginia D. Amato Gary and Carol Berman Guy H. Caffey, Jr., WWII Veteran not be able to identify the vessels as they went Jim Stone, WWII Veteran The American Legion Synepuxent Post 166 Julius Sydney Rubel, WWII Veteran Sue Cannon Ms. Lisa M. Thamasett Ms. Jerome T. Amerman Alan Herman Saks, WWII Veteran George Reynolds Cannon, WWII Veteran TEC 5 William Alonzo Jones, USA, Kenneth Thompson Israel Wolford Berman, WWII Veteran Dan and Joan Cantor WWII Veteran Mark Reid Anderson Bevolo Gas and Electric Lights Mortimer Caplin, WWII Veteran Mildred E. (Jones) Johnson, Robert A. Scalfi, Jr., WWII Veteran Andrew Bevolo, Sr., WWII Home Front Mark David Carapella WWII Home Front Albert Bruce Crutcher II, WWII Veteran Mr. Jonathan E. Beyman Anthony J. Carapella, WWII Veteran Shirley A. (Jones) Thamasett, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Anderson Bernard B. Beyman, WWII Veteran Ms. Helen Carley WWII Home Front The Honorable and Mrs. William C. Anderson Mr. Patrick Black, WWII Veteran Raymond J. Carley, WWII Veteran Otto J. Thamasett, WWII Home Front Harold E. Anderson, WWII Veteran Mrs. Gerald R. Black Sandra R. Carter - Green Elsie P. Thamasett, WWII Home Front Charles Weller, WWII Veteran Mrs. Tamara Blackburn Merwin Randall Riblet, WWII Veteran Otto E. Thamasett, WWII Home Front Travis K. Anderson Andrew Jackson Kelley, WWII Veteran Mr. Ray Casey Floyd Golden Johnson, USA, WWII Veteran James Woodrow Wise, WWII Veteran Jack E. and Mary T. Blake Evans Gavin Helton, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach Joseph James Kozora, WWII Veteran Major John Culp McFadden, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. John R. Wilkinson (Ret.) Mrs. Judy M. and Mr. Woodrow W. Ms. Loretta Angerer Jack E. Blake, WWII Veteran Stephen H. Cate Mr. Tom Hamilton Buddy Kullman Dr. Robert McWhirter Thomas B. Nusz Thompson II Richard Kent Angerer, WWII Veteran Harold J. Blakemore, USN, WWII Veteran Lt. Robert G. Harper, USMC Mr. G. Robert Hamrdla Diane S. Lake Stanley B. McWhirter, WWII Home Front Mr. Karl Nygren, WWII Veteran Capt. Albert Dean Bryant, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Antalec Derek Blakeslee Frank T. Cate, WWII Veteran Tom and Char Hand Sal and Carol Lalani Col. and Mrs. Larry Merington Julie Overbeck Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Thompson, Ashner Family Evergreen Foundation Col. and Mrs. Henry Blechl, USA (Ret.) Dr. Ann B. Catts Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Harlan Morris Cady Glenn, WWII Veteran Charles Domangue, WWII Veteran Ralph D. Overbeck, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Jules Rainess, WWII Veteran Thomas Blum Patsy B. and LTC James A. Causey (Ret.) Dr. Harold R. Harlan, D.D.S., WWII Veteran Joseph Wallace Glenn, WWII Veteran John Albanese, WWII Veteran Esther L. Overbeck, WWII Home Front Dr. and Mrs. Charles Varsel Morton Hassman, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Barry O. Blumberg Ms. Kathleen Cavanaugh Mrs. Sharon Hartshorn Charles W. Lane III Jack Merington, WWII Veteran Ms. Nadine Piedmont Philip Varsel, WWII Veteran Bernard M. Ashner, WWII Veteran Robert Blumberg, WWII Veteran William J. Cavanaugh, WWII Veteran Roy Thomas Kniebbe, WWII Veteran Mr. Henry K. Lathrop Maurice Meyer III and Irma Meyer Alfred Piedmont, WWII Veteran Thomas Varsel, WWII Veteran Capt. Charles B. Askey Dale E. Boger Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Cebelak Mr. Marc Helm Major Henry T. Lathrop, WWII Veteran Jeanne Michael Mr. and Mrs. James D. Pike Edward Varsel, WWII Veteran Cdr. Henry Benjamin Askey, WWII Veteran Maj. George Henry Boger, Jr., Norman Robert Cebelak, WWII Veteran Homer Marcus Helm, Sr., WWII Veteran Ms. Hsiang Hwa Therese Liu William R. Michaels Donald O. Pike, WWII Veteran Mrs. Lester Wainer Richard Atkins WWII Veteran Chalmette VFW Post 3706 Quay Milford Fortner, WWII Veteran Milton Ming-Chao Liu, WWII Home Front Michael Kany, WWII Veteran Mr. Jason Pilalas Lester Weil Wainer, WWII Veteran 1st Lt. Steve N. Guidry Thomas W. Costello, WWII Veteran Joe Gritter, WWII Veteran Col. Paul H. Herbert Mr. Wilton Looney, WWII Veteran Jim and Sonia Miller Lt. T. Holmes Moore, USNR, Dr. Billy and Sylvia Walker Mr. Robert August Edwin Daniel, WWII Veteran Sam Ortego, WWII Veteran Mrs. Arlene M. Holden Earl Dolive, WWII Veteran Russell A. Minor WWII Veteran Billy L. Walker, M.D. Charles J. August, WWII Veteran Mr. William Boller Leo P. and Cheryl W. Champagne 1st Lt. Logan Monroe, Jr., WWII Veteran Mr. Lawrence Marino and Ms. Ann Morehead Averill Carr, WWII Veteran Mr. Peter Politzer Jean H. and John T. Walter, Jr. Fund of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Auray Merle Howard Boller, WWII Veteran Leo Pierre Champagne, Sr., WWII Veteran Arthur S. Holden, Jr., WWII Home Front Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Markey Donald McWilliams, WWII Veteran Alfred R. Politzer, USN Communities Foundation of Texas Robert R. Auray, Sr., WWII Veteran Mary Kay Borchers Mr. David Dah Chung Chang Staff Sgt. Wilbur L. Loftin, WWII Veteran John T. Markey, Jr., WWII Veteran Kenneth Platt, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. John R. Poteet Thomas M. Warren George Edmund Voyer, WWII Veteran Charles L. Borchers, M.D., WWII Veteran Mrs. Louise Chapman Robert W. Horner III Robert Jones, WWII Veteran Leroy Leonard, WWII Veteran Elmer A. Poteet, WWII Home Front Arlie Lester Alderman, WWII Veteran Robert J. Bailey Lt. Col. Gerald F. Bourgeois, USAF (Ret.) John Ople Chapman, Jr., WWII Veteran David and Sarah Hurder Walter H. Jones, WWII Veteran Robert Pratt, WWII Veteran James T. Chumley, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Claude Whitmire, Jr. Dr. James Hutchison, WWII Veteran Dr. Charles William Boustany, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Charbonnet Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Patrick, WWII Veteran Charles D. Marks Robert Whelan, WWII Veteran Mary Helen Poteet, WWII Home Front Jonathan and Lindsay Wilkerson Leonard Crawford, WWII Veteran B. Joe and Becky Bowers Fred L. and Kirsti E. Charlton Janice and Richard Ingram Major Sidney L. Marks, WWII Veteran Vern Ollar, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. William S. Potter Ernest Eugene Hyne, WWII Veteran Gilbert Baker Dr. John C. Bravman Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Cheever Carl T. Walker, WWII Veteran Private Harry Otter, WWI Veteran Wesley Athey, WWII Veteran Arthur I. Appleton, WWII Veteran Myrtle Aiten Wilkerson, WWII Veteran Andy Anderson, WWII Veteran Ella Katherine Bravman, WWII Home Front Col. Charles E. Cheever, Sr., WWII Veteran Herbert M. West, WWII Veteran Mr. Thomas Marks William Lawrence, WWII Veteran George H. Hunt, WWII Veteran Merritt Mechem Wilkerson, WWII Veteran Kolman Lampe, WWII Veteran Maurice Daniel Bravman, WWII Veteran Capt. John Shary II, WWII Veteran SGT Robert E. Jacoby, USA (Ret.), Marvin J. Marks, WWII Veteran William Lozano, WWII Veteran Albert Whatley, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wolverton Samuel Levin, WWII Veteran Neil Bray Mr. Stanley P. Chen, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Ben A. Martinez, Jr., WWII Veteran Harold Minor, Jr., WWII Veteran Richard Potter, WWII Veteran Timothy L. and Kathleen R. Wren Mr. G. Thomas Ball Eugene G. Bray, WWII Veteran Ms. Anne C. Chilstrom Mary L. Dumestre and Guy P. Johnson Urban B. Martinez, WWII Veteran J. B. Johnson, WWII Veteran Floyd A. Potter, WWII Veteran Robert Hicks, WWII Veteran John Thomas Ball Edward Brayman and Ms. Sparre M. Strand Col. Kenneth O. Chilstrom (Ret.), Dr. and Mrs. John Patrick Jordan John L. Martinez, WWII Veteran James Kirk, WWII Veteran Martha O'Driscoll, WWII USO Entertainer Leroy Wren, Korean War Veteran Irene P. Barker Dean Philip Strand, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran RADM Edwin W. Herron, WWII Veteran Jose D. Martinez, WWII Veteran Walter Schattel, WWII Veteran RAMCO of Virginia Tokuji Yoshihashi Robert Edwin Barker, WWII Veteran Harold Brayman, WWII Veteran Alexander E. Chionsini William Spenser Jordan, WWII Veteran Ms. Julia Mavellia Frank Pantuso, WWII Veteran Lt. Lenard "Bud" Forsberg, USAAC, Ichiro Yoshihashi, WWII Veteran Paul and Kathleen Barletta Leroy Oswald Strand, WWII Veteran and Sally Seale Chionsini Brig. Gen. Ronald Dean Salmon, Dominick Mavellia, WWII Veteran Henry J. and Theresa Cox Montero WWII Veteran Earl and Diane Zachry Robert H. Barlow Donald LaVerne Brayman, WWII Veteran Major James N. Seale, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran George A. McCalpin, WWII Veteran S/SGT James A. Nulty, WWII Veteran Isla and T. R. Reckling And Three Others Who Wish to Remain John H. Barrette Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brem Michael Chisek Col. Herbert S. Jordan, WWII Veteran F. William McCalpin, USMC, WWII Veteran SGT Hugh Nulty, WWII Veteran Mr. A. J. Remillard, Jr. Anonymous Basin St. Station John Brennan Andrew J. Chisek, WWII Veteran James Lippitt Joslin Frank Miles, USMC, WWII Veteran T/SGT Michael Migilore, WWII Veteran Dr. Judith Ring Bernard Gumpert, WWII Veteran Mr. Warren L. Batts Lee and Tamie Bressler Richard and Rebecca Clapp Lawrence and Kathy Kanter Advised Fund John W. Murphy, USN, WWII Veteran S/SGT Michael R. Cronin, WWII Veteran Capt. John B. Webb, WWII Veteran Gilbert Gumpert, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Baur Mr. and Mrs. H. David Bright Richard N. Clapp, WWII Veteran Captain Myron Kanter, M.D., WWII Veteran W. J. Dieter, USAAF, WWII Veteran Arthur J. Moore, WWII Veteran Norman Arthur Ring, WWII Veteran Mr. James Baynham Major Walter Subby, M.D., WWII Veteran Sylvia Clawson John and Dottie Kelley Tom and Marla McCullough Glenn Mueller - RPM Pizza - Domino's Pizza Jack and Sandy Ripsteen 445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force Mr. A. Vernon Brinson Robert Edwin McGreer, WWII Veteran Lt. Calvin A. Kelley, WWII Veteran Mr. John McFadden, Jr. Richard Galloway, US Navy Joel Ripsteen, M.D., WWII Veteran Jerald Bays Archibald Thomas Higgins, Jr., Shirlee McGreer Lou Kennedy and Family Major Joseph Means McFadden, Dr. Richard P. Mueller, US Army Gov. Pete Wilson L. Jerald Bays WWII Veteran Ward Clifton, WWII Home Front James E. Kennedy, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Murrey Joe Dignan, WWII Veteran ONE STAR Sherry Lynn Owens John P. Williamson, WWII Veteran Mr. Melvin Woodrow Coates Frances Tuciarone, WWII Veteran Major Samuel Edward McFadden, 1st Lt. Charles Galloway Morris, Susan and Eric J. Robbins James and Tammy Beatty Judy and Bernard Briskin Melvin Woodrow Coats, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Kitchen WWII Veteran Korean War Veteran Maurice Rabinowitz Robbins 120th AAA Battalion Lt. Col. John Beatty, WWII Veteran Emil Britt Brig. Gen. James B. Cobb, USAF (Ret.) John Walter Paul, Jr., WWII Veteran Ms. Jess McFadden Alexander, Thomas Whitelaw Murray, Sr., Leonard S. Rabinowitz Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Abbinante Ms. Anne Beaty Carole Brookins Fielding Lewis Cocke Joseph W. Kozora WWII Veteran Korean War Veteran WWII Veteran Anthony J. Belli, WWII Veteran Richard N. Beaty, WWII Veteran Charles H. Glueck, WWII Veteran W. H. Cocke, Sr., WWII Veteran

46 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 47 W. H. Cocke, Jr., WWII Veteran Richard H. Dawson, WWII Veteran Lt. Robert W. Erlandson, WWII Veteran George C. Carruthers, WWII Veteran ROBERT “MAC” MCWHIRTER, MD Robert “Mac” McWhirter, MD, has been a Member connection to his father’s role in the war. Elizabeth De Picciotto Michael P. Esposito, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Walter D. Cockerham Henry and Joann Gagain TWO STAR DONOR of Patriots Circle since 2014. His father, Stanley B. However, McWhirter’s greatest lessons Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel de Rothschild Kirby Lee Cockerham, WWII Veteran Trish and John Eubanks Alfred Karmen, WWII Veteran McWhirter, was a first-generation immigrant from about the war came from the values and Robert Rife Saunders, WWII Veteran Kevin P. Delaney Mr. John Evans Eugenia Karmen, WWII Veteran Roy C. Coffee, Jr. Edward J. Delaney Mr. Mark W. Evans Frank Karman, WWII Veteran Scotland who came to the United States in 1920. teachings instilled by his parents. “My father and Herschel Abbott Peggy and Don DePascal MSGT Ben E. Evans, WWII Veteran Edward Gagain, WWII Veteran A welder by trade, Stanley participated in the mother both told me about the struggles endured Mses. Linda and Barbara Coley Ms. Paula Di Domenico Eyas Foundation Edward Karmen, WWII Veteran Manhattan Project, working with different metal through hard times during the Great Depression Hazel Brady Coley, WWII Home Front Wilhelm Grimmer, WWII Veteran P. A. B. Widener III, WWII Veteran Moses Attaya, WWII Veteran weld components for atomic bombs. and World War II, and those stories inspired me Leonard Earl Coley, WWII Veteran Alfred Grimmer, WWII Veteran Ms. Gloria Farber William Gagain, WWII Veteran “Given the secrecy of the project, my dad and my siblings to succeed in life through hard Collier Family Trust Rodney Grimmer, WWII Veteran Jerome Carlyle Farber, WWII Veteran Howard Gagain, WWII Veteran Russell William Collier, WWII Veteran Richard A. and Bonnie P. Dial Lt. Col. Edward J. Farrell Joseph Alix, WWII Veteran didn’t realize the importance of his fabrications, work and dedication.” Douglas Comella George Prendergast, Jr., Louis J. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Richard Garbisch but there was great concern that the bombs would McWhirter feels it’s important to sustain S1C Kenneth Eugene Graff, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran William A. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. John T. Garnjost break apart midair,” said McWhirter. “Obviously and grow the Museum through his involvement 1st Lt. Joseph V. LaMoglia, WWII Veteran Ruby V. Dienstberger Olive Goodwin Farrell Bill Tweedy, WWII Veteran that did not happen, so I believe his craftsmanship in Patriots Circle. “The stories and the trauma of Mr. Joe Comer 1st Lt. Paul E. Kloeppel, WWII Veteran Mr. Werner Feibes John Grunow, WWII Veteran played a small but important role in the successful war—in World War II in particular—are important Elmer F. Comer, WWII Veteran Mr. Donald Dillon James D. Schmitt, WWII Veteran Dan Luciano, WWII Veteran Mr. Mark S. Comora Howard Watson, WWII Veteran Francis M. Feltham Dr. George J. Gataky detonations of the bombs and ending the war.” to remember,” he said. “Our involvement in this Herb Mahler, WWII Veteran Frank DiPentino John Curran Feltham, Sr., WWII Veteran George J. Gataky, Sr., WWI Veteran After the war, Stanley was given a commendation global conflict—and the values and ideals that Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Compton Jon Dittmer Percy Marshall Feltham, Jr., Mr. Norman C. Gauthreaux for his efforts and participation in the project. emerged from it—impacted me then and will Francis Eldon Brecht, WWII KIA Jim and Becky Dockter WWII Veteran Roy N. Gauthreaux, WWII Veteran As for McWhirter, his fascination with always be a huge part of who I am today.” Frederick F. Brecht, WWII Veteran Eugene J. Dockter, WWII Veteran Col. and Mrs. Mark Ferketish Clyde Gauthreaux, WWII Veteran World War II started as a child. Part of the baby Harry C. Compton, WWII KIA Richard G. Miller, Jr., WWII Veteran Robert C. Finnegan, WWII Veteran Earl Gauthreaux, WWII Veteran Merrill C. Comstock Scott Dodds Thomas P. Gilsenan, WWII Veteran Robert Gauthreaux, Korean and boom generation, he enjoyed learning about Dr. John R. Condit, Jr. Joseph C. Doherty, WWII Veteran Gregory T. Ferketish, WWII Veteran Vietnam War Veteran the war. McWhirter fondly recalls watching the John Russell Condit, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. Chris Domangue Todd Fernstrum David Doll, WWII Veteran television show Victory at Sea, a documentary Ms. Ernestine Cook Edward J. Filanowski, WWII Veteran Robert William Fernstrum, Donald A. Doll, WWII Veteran television series about warfare—in particular LeRoy H. Cook, Jr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. David S. Doyle WWII Home Front Mathias "Buddy" Doll, WWII Veteran naval combat—during World War II, as well as the John D. and Margarete Cooke Margaret Dragisic Mr. Thomas Fertal Joseph R. Surgi, WWII Veteran Dorothea Francis Cooke, Gary and Jan Dressler Thomas A. Fertal, WWII Veteran Mr. Carol Gautreau use of industry in warfare, creating a meaningful WWII Home Front Mr. Wm. Craig Dubishar Helen Barrett Fertal, WWII Home Front Mr. William Gay CPO James Cooke, WWII Veteran Maj. Wm. Roland Dubishar, USAF, Ms. Seymour A. Fine Mr. Herbert Gedge Capt. Paul C. Cooke, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Alan and Patricia Fiorenza Burton H. Gedge III, WWII Veteran Mr. Steven R. Corbett Francis E. Dubishar, WWII Veteran Anthony J. Fiorenza, WWII Veteran Alfred B. Gedge, WWII Veteran Jack Keepor, WWII Veteran J. Arnold Dubishar, WWII Veteran Thomas Melvin Matthews, WWII Veteran Mr. William Geis, Jr. Arnold W. Pardis, WWII Veteran Matthew and Janet Dudley Mr. Robert L. Fiscus Chief Petty Officer Charles J. Geis, Linda C. Cornutt Dora Cox, WWII Veteran Dr. David H. Fisher, Sr. WWII Veteran Lt. Everett R. Core, WWII Veteran Robert Cox, WWII Veteran Michelle Fisher Ronald and Sharon Gembler Mr. and Mrs. Steven Cossé Melvin Max Seim, WWII Veteran Marcellus Schukman, WWII Veteran Alfred F. Gembler, WWII Veteran Claude Cossé, WWII Veteran Mrs. Carol McCarthy Duhme Clarence Schukman, WWII Veteran Emil Frank Gembler, WWII Veteran Charlotte M. Covington Lt. Sheldon Ware, WWII Veteran Ralph Schukman, WWII Veteran Elam George Gembler, WWII Veteran Rudy Mathias, US Army, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Jude Duhon Jacob Schukman, Jr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Gerard V. Gething Gregory Ricks and Associates, Inc. PFC Otto Charles Eid, WWII Veteran Franklin J. Stupka, WWII Veteran Mr. Robert J. Hombach Ms. Phoebe Cowles Jesse M. Knowles Walter N. Leiker, WWII Veteran Nicholas Parise, WWII Veteran Brian A. Grieger Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hartig Mr. John and Mrs. Jan Herbert Mrs. Lynne Honickman Major Cheney Cowles, WWII Veteran Dunn's Floor Covering, Inc. Edward Schukman, WWII Veteran John Parise, WWII Veteran Arthur Melvin Grieger, WWII Veteran Frank Di Girolamo, WWII Veteran Art Harder, WWII Veteran Mr. Timothy C. Hoover Ms. Jenny Craig Frank Mulrooney, WWII Veteran Mr. Budd W. Florkiewicz Dr. Jack and Mrs. Linda Gill Catherine Louise Rongey Grieger, SGT Paul J. Hartig, WWII Veteran John W. Herbert, WWII Veteran Hoover Family, WWII Home Front Ms. Beatrice Crain Tom Mulrooney, WWII Veteran Jay H. Floyd, Jr. Lt. Lewis Challis, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran David B. Hartzell Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hess Horn Family Foundation Barney Goldberg, WWII Veteran Richard Mulrooney, WWII Veteran N. C. Dragisic, WWII Veteran PFC Elmer Clayton Gill, WWII Veteran Grizzard Family Foundation Frank C. Hartzell, WWII Veteran LTC Robert W. Hicks (Ret.) Audie Murphy, WWII Veteran Mr. Donald J. Cramer George Sexton, WWII Veteran Mr. William G. Flynn Roy A. Glapion, PE Dr. Joseph H. Groveman Mr. William Hathorn SFC Elmer G. Hicks, WWII Veteran Earl Rudder, WWII Veteran Robert Lewis Cramer, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Tim Dunn Keith Anthony Folse Mr. Bobby J. Glass Ms. Riane Gruss Edgar C. Hathorn, WWII Veteran CAPT Edward B. Higgins, Jr. Ms. Judith M. Hovanesian Mr. Gordon Crawford Jack Caughman, WWII Veteran and Barbara Gayle Folse Jack Weaver, WWII Veteran Emanuel Gruss, WWII Veteran Ms. Linda Hatley Captain Edward Higgins, Sr., US Army, George John Hovanesian, Mr. Mort Creech, Jr. Jack Duplessis, CLU Pvt. Guy Joseph Folse, WWII Veteran Sambo Weaver, WWII Veteran Valerie and Jack Guenther PFC Madison M. Leek, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Silas M. Creech RADM Philip A. Dur (Ret.) USN Lt. Col. Ira C. Weatherly (Ret.), Buford Weaver, WWII Veteran Ross Howard, WWII Veteran Les and Donna Haulbrook Ms. Henrietta C. Hildebrand Dr. Jack A. Hudson Jim and Kathy Crouch LDCR Philip Francis Dur, USMR, WWII Veteran R. M. Brantley, WWII Veteran Jack Mallepell, WWII Veteran William S. Henderson, WWII Veteran Capt. David Gerry Connally, US Army, Dr. Stephanie E. Hughes John V. Croul WWII Veteran Shirley Foreman Mr. Charles Godchaux Mr. Kenneth R. Guest Joseph D. Haulbrook, WWII Veteran WWII KIA Al A. Hughes, WWII Veteran Mr. F. Gary Cunningham CMSGT Jesse J. Rosson, USAF, Roy Lee Foreman Frank Godchaux Harry R. Guest, WWII Veteran Ms. Joanne Hayes John Adrian Larkin, WWII KIA Don and Jane Hunt 1st Lt. John H. Cunningham, WWII Veteran Ms. Carol Forkiotis Julian Ragland, WWII Veteran Mr. Curtis C. Gunn, Jr. Samuel M. Fleming, WWII Veteran James H. Clement, Sr., WWII Veteran Charles R. Smith, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Ms. Susan P. Dusenberry Dr. Constintine "Gus" Forkiotis, Jim Ragland, WWII Veteran Curtis C. Gunn, WWII Veteran Dr. Richard P. Hays Robert I. Hildebrand, WWII Veteran Curtis J. Hunter Roderick Henderson Outland, Howard Edward Ellis, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Ms. Judy F. Goldblatt Joe M. Haas, WWII Veteran Arthur D. Williams, US Army Air Corps, Bob and Sandy Hillman Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Hurd, Jr. WWII Veteran Jon A. Ebacher Mr. and Mrs. George D. Fosdick Emanuel P. Goldblatt, WWII Veteran Samuel D. Haas, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran CAPT Tatnall Lea Hillman, SC, USNR (Ret.) Dr. Daniel C. Riordan, Ms. Doris L. Dahl Rudolph W. Ebacher, WWII Veteran Major Leslie Howard, WWII Veteran Morris and Arlene Goldfarb Mr. Charles Haas Aubry L. Hays, WWII Veteran William Williams Keen Butcher, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. Kenneth M. Dahl, WWII Veteran Charles E. Ebrom George W. Fosdick, WWII Veteran Mr. Julius Sigholz, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hahlbeck Mark and Lisa Hefner Heitz WWII Veteran Larry O. Rutan, WWII Veteran Pvt. Harold Liddell, WWII Veteran Ms. Patricia C. Edwards Julie Fotiades and Evelyn Fotiades Poulos The Goldie Anna Charitable Trust Kenneth Brunelli, WWII Veteran Joe B. Heitz, WWII Veteran Susan D. Hines Richard A. Hurd, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Dale Ode Vaughan Cecil, WWII Veteran Thomas Lykos, WWII Veteran Robert and Susan Goldstein Family EN William A. Barr, WWII Veteran Gene E. Hefner, WWII Veteran 2nd Lt. Hilda Allspaw, WWII Veteran Frank G. Falkner, WWII Veteran John Dale, Merchant Marine, Richard and Seola Edwards, Jr. George Demas Charles A. Smith, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John M. Hale Missy Lacroix and Gary Hemphill Edward W. Hinson, Jr. Howard J. Lynde II, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran William Morris Edwards, Nick Demas Mr. Joseph A. Gonenc, Jr. Mr. John P. Hale, WWII Veteran Elmo John Fischer, WWII Veteran Marian M. Hinson Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hussman Lionel Favalora, USCG, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran John Poulos Mr. Alvin Goolsby and Nicholas J. Pappas, WWII Veteran Paul George Lacroix, Jr., WWII Veteran Ms. Anita Hirsh Richard and Sandra Hutson Terry and Joanne Dale Achilles Arnaud, Joan Fotiades Ms. Betty J. Verdino Mr. Peter Hallgren John Marvin Hemphill, USN, James A. Hixon Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Indelicato Ted P. Dalzell, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Eleanor J. Fox S1C Omar Tillion Goolsby, Theodore P. Hallgren, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Maj. Gen. Robert C. Hixon, WWII Veteran Diego Indelicato, WWII Veteran Warren A. Daniel Mary J. Eisenhower Mrs. Jean H. Frank, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Mr. Thomas Hamilton Mr. Solly Hemus Col. Charles E. Hixon, WWII Veteran Gregory Indelicato, WWII Veteran Mr. Alex Daniels John S. B. Eisenhower, WWII Veteran Captain Charles W. Frank, Harold L. Gosseen, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. George B. Hamilton, WWII Veteran Mr. Raymond Henderson, WWII Veteran Robert and Allison Hjortsberg Michael Nicosia, WWII Veteran Don O'Cain Daniels, USMC, Ms. Diane Ekstrom WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Russell and Beth Gould Mr. Mark Hamlin Lloyd R. Henderson, WWII Veteran Peggy J. Hoblack Lamar L. Ingram WWII Veteran Conrad E. Swenson, WWII Veteran Ms. Deborah Freeland Richard L. Gould, WWII Veteran Ed Morelli, WWII Veteran Richard D. Henderson, WWII Veteran Ross Todd H. G. Brann, WWII Veteran William Dannenberg Amelia and Jeffrey Elder Robert Lee Gifford, WWII Veteran John Andrew Olson, US Navy, Dan Hammond Raymond Henderson, WWII Veteran Mr. Stanley A. Hoffberger John H. Ingram, Jr. Patrick and Marlene Darby Ms. Betty Jo Ellard Ronald Freeman, PE WWII Veteran Elmer M. Hammond, WWII Veteran PFC Charles A. Henderson, Lt. C. Bertram Hoffberger, WWII Veteran Kent and Jan Jackman Mr. Russell and Mrs. Margaret Daulton Gene Purvis McPhail, WWII Veteran Lt. Cmdr. Theodore M. Robinson, Mr. R. Newell Graham Ms. Kathryn J. Hanley WWII Veteran Jamie S. Hoffman Mr. LaMoine T. Jacobs Frank Roy Daulton, WWII Veteran Jan McCaleb Elliott WWII Veteran Hardy Moore Graham, WWII Veteran Raenel R. Hansen Ms. Diane Henderson Vernon E. Seibert, WWII Veteran Clarence J. Thompson, WWII Veteran Harvey Henry Kustel, WWII Veteran and Dana McCaleb Barnes Theodore B. Marks, WWII Veteran Douglas Grahn Charles E. Richner, WWII Veteran Henry Bowser, WWII Home Front Mr. Daniel E. Holland Gustave C. Thompson, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Davidson Jesse Elliott McCaleb, Jr., WWII Veteran Richard Harris, WWII Veteran Sgt. Douglas Grahn, WWII Veteran Kathleen Kress Hanson Mr. Kenneth Hendricks Mr. and Mrs. T. Jerome Holleran Myron and Randee Jacobs Family Foundation Dr. Thomas E. Davis, WWII Veteran and Ms. Inger Elliott Cmdr. James Thearle, Jacqueline R. Green John J. Kress, WWII Veteran Samuel H. Hendricks, WWII Veteran Charles J. Holleran, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Jacobs Mrs. Davis Osborn Elliott, WWII Veteran Vietnam War Veteran Jim Green, WWII Veteran Ruth McNerney Kress, WWII Veteran Mr. Ed Henneberque Walter Raymond McGonigle, WWII Veteran Jean Dasburg Jacobson and Steve Jacobson John A. Vaticano, WWII Veteran Mr. Larry P. English Earl A. Booth, WWI and WWII Veteran Clarence S. Greene, Jr., M.D. Ms. Gail P. Harkins Eduard "Eepie" Henneberque Mr. John P. Holliday Jean Henry Dasburg, WWII Veteran Mrs. Susan Davis Lloyd (Bill) English, WWII Veteran Edmund Frodyma Thomas E. Gardiner, WWII Veteran Mrs. Hazel Harris J. Tyler Herbert Mr. Denton Holmes Robert T. Geraghty, WWII Veteran Mr. James J. Dawson Mr. James Erlandson Marilyn T. Gaddis Dan and Katie Greggs Ms. Terri Harris Glendon M. Herbert, WWII Veteran Dan D. Washburn, WWII Veteran Jack Jacobson, WWII Veteran

48 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 49 Lewis H. Weinstein, WWII Veteran Larry Klairmont, WWII Veteran Mr. Melvyn Lefkowitz Dr. and Mrs. Neil J. Maki WWII Veteran James Redmond, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Dick H. Piner, Jr. John Fredrick Remington, WWII Veteran Mr. Jerold Jacobson Beth and Vernon Kliebert, Jr. Mark and Patti Lenz Frederick and Linda R. Mangelsdorf James Meza, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Nix, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. Francis Pisney Paul B. Repetto Major General Maurice Rose, Captain Robert Bentel Harold Weinzierl, WWII Veteran Theodore A. Mangelsdorf Ms. Melisse Meza Douchka H. Noren Adolph J. Pisney, WWII Veteran Ms. June Reynolds WWII Veteran Robert Henry Bentel, WWII Veteran Col. and Mrs. Robert P. Leroux William G. "Bill" Newnam, WWII Veteran Miami Corporation Joop Herschel John Morrissey, WWII Veteran PFC Luther Watson Reynolds, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Hans G. Jepson LT Christopher Kliebert Tech Sgt. Robert P. Leroux, WWII Veteran Ms. Florence F. Marino Andre V. Wogan, WWII Veteran Nora Herschel Joseph Trachta, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Colonel Hans G. Jepson, WWII Veteran Mr. Edward Klima Mr. Mark Lestikow Lt. Frank S. Marino, M.D., WWII Veteran George T. Wogan, WWII Veteran Mr. David Norris Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Plagge Ms. Marilyn Reznick Col. William Jernigan, USAF (Ret.) Edward E. Klima, WWII Home Front Aron Levine James and Shirley Martin Paul N. Wogan, WWII Veteran Ava and Leon Nowalsky David H. Platt Jerome S. Reznick, WWII Veteran S1C William Eugene Jernigan, USN, Mr. “E J” Knapik Fred Galanty James R. Martin, WWII Veteran Diane Garber Miller Harry Nowalsky, WWII Veteran Beatrice Platt, WWII Home Front Mary Sue Richards WWII Veteran Robert and Betty Knight Mr. Ralph Levoy C. L. Peterson, WWII Veteran Julian P. Garber, WWII Veteran Bradley P. Noyes, USNR Sidney Platt, WWII Veteran Rose Mary Gudgeon Drabik, John Marion Hayes, WWII Home Front Fred Franklin Knight, WWII Veteran Ralph J. Gioncardi, WWII Veteran Roy M. Martin Mary Duke Garber, WWII Home Front Dr. John L. Ochsner, Sr., WWII Veteran Leo J. Polack WWII Home Front Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson Mr. Andrew Knotts Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levy O. V. Martin, WWII Veteran Henry K. and Penny S. Miller, Jr. Joseph O'Dowd Donald V. Polack, WWII Veteran Henry Francis Drabik, WWII Veteran R. E. Bull, WWII Veteran Dr. Lorraine A. Kobett Capt. Ben Levy, Jr. Mr. Joseph Martinelli Mr. Robert T. Miller Philip O'Dowd, WWII Veteran Jerry Ingebrignston, WWII Veteran Frank H. Richardson W. D. Johnson, WWII Veteran Victor B. Kobett, WWII Veteran Mr. David J. Levy Audrey M. Martino Charles Miller, WWII Veteran Yoshiharu Ohara, WWII Veteran Sandra Murray Polk Dale Richardson, WWII Veteran Mr. Charles G. Johnson Mr. George Kopchinsky, Jr. Harvey White, WWII Veteran John A. Martino, WWII Veteran Ms. Jennifer A. Miller Mr. Thomas O'Keefe James Wray Murray, WWII Veteran Avery Coulter, WWII Veteran Walter Giles Johnson, Jr., WWII Veteran Joseph Kopchinski, WWII Veteran Sgt. Alexander S. Gibson, WWII Veteran Mr. Thomas L. Mason Vincent Abbott, WWII Veteran Michael Roy O'Keefe, Jr., WWII Veteran Jean Magee Murray, WWII Home Front Clare C. Richardson, WWII Veteran Ms. Anne Johnson Ms. Carole Koren Alex Gibson, WWII Veteran Joseph Eazer, WWII Veteran R. E. "Bob" Miller Howard and Julie Okum John Rosser Murray, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Richardson Laurence F. Krebs, WWII Veteran Joseph Galati, WWII Veteran MSGT. William Lahman, WWII Veteran Thomas Eazer, WWII Veteran William A. Miller, Jr. and Patricia L. Miller CDR Maurice D. Okum, WWII Veteran WWII Home Front Major Todd Brown Richardson, Ms. Virginia F. Johnson Celia Galati, WWII Home Front Mr. H. Irwin Levy Ms. Cecylia Matecki Donald E. Miller, WWII Veteran Douglas G. Oldham Ruffner Page Murray, WWII Veteran US Marines Mr. Richard Johnston Susan J. Krider Geoff Lewis Bruno Matecki, WWII Veteran Robert S. Miller, WWII Veteran Albert S. Buck, WWII Veteran Harlan and Hannah Kay Pollock Family Charles Ellis Brown, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. Robert M. Tremmel, WWII Veteran Col. Ralph Ward Jones (Ret.), William Raymond Lewis Ms. Linda Mathews William A. Miller, WWII Veteran Claude F. Hone, WWII Veteran Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Ms. Sandra Richardson PFC John O. Tremmel, WWII KIA WWII Veteran Mr. Steven Liebzeit Glenard R. McVeigh, WWII Veteran Ernest T. Peterson, WWII Veteran Mesmin M. Orchard, WWII Veteran Community Foundation Captain Edgel "Rich" Richardson, Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Jones Mr. Ken Kriz Merlin E. Liebzeit, WWII Veteran Mae Mattson Gregory Miner Richard M. Schneider, WWII Veteran Herbert Ellis Pollock, M.D., WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Robert Hausser, WWII Veteran Ernie Coufal, WWII Veteran Walter S. Light Alton Owen Mattson, WWII Veteran Charles K. and Lorraine W. Minton Frank A. Schneider, WWII Veteran C. Anne Pontius Scott Richardson Alexander Ford Sasser, Jr., WWII Veteran Don Kriz, WWII Veteran Walter Leverett, WWII Veteran Dr. Andrew P. Mayer Sgt. Ned Jones Winkler, WWII Veteran Gordon Oldham, WWII Veteran Capt. Eugene Cameron Pontius, Col. David T. Rigdon Elaine Cruz Jones Evelyn Kriz, WWII Home Front O. J. Camp, Jr., WWII Veteran and Dr. Georgia McDonald Ms. Vivian Z. Mirza Mr. Dan O'Leary WWII Veteran Bryon W. Jones, WWII Veteran Kenneth Thomas Jones, Jr., WWII Veteran Lad Kriz, WWII Veteran Wallace Martin, WWII Veteran Randell S. Mayer, Jr., WWII Veteran Bruno Zucchelli, WWII Veteran Capt. Robert Wendell Stewart, Ms. Dee Poole James "Ted" Rigdon, WWII Veteran Louise A. Jones Diana Kouns Kuhlman Brenda S. Likens Ms. Edna L. Mayo Tom and Joan Mistler WWII Veteran J. P. Poole, WWII Veteran River Birch, Inc. Dorothy Agee, WWII Home Front Robert Lee Kouns, Jr., WWII Veteran Eugene "Gene" E. Likens, WWII Veteran Jack Ward Mayo, WWII Veteran Alvin Jess Mistler, WWII Veteran Mrs. Frances Olsen John R. Pope RNR Cross Family Foundation Stanton Agee, WWII Veteran Robert "Moose" Kustra Howard H. Huff, WWII Veteran Mr. Julien L. McCall, WWII Veteran Captain John Walter Mistler, CMSGT Leonard E. Olsen, William J. Popovic Mr. Dana J. Roberts Mr. Alan Jones Steven T. Kuykendall Lois M. Huff, WWII Home Front Ellen Young McClain WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Robert F. Schwent, WWII Veteran Carl Wayne Roberts, WWII Veteran Horatio Gates Jones, WWII Veteran Ms. Betty J. LaBonte Dr. Deborah L. Lindquist Walter S. Young, Jr., WWII Veteran Ronald and Cynthia Mistrot Mr. and Mrs. Harvey O'Neill Mr. John C. Portwood Robert T. Robertson Mr. Ralph Jones George Victor LaBonte, Jr., Howard Lindquist, WWII Veteran Mr. Robert McCollum Robert Najolia, WWII Veteran Charles T. Zatarain, WWII Veteran Mr. Michael R. Potack Robert G. Robertson, WWII Veteran William Ralph Jones, Jr., WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Pauline Hershiser Lindquist, Hunter McConnell, Jr., WWII Veteran John Mock and Margaret Mock Dr. Gina Orton Cobbs Ms. Carmen I. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Robison Mr. Thomas Kaczynski, Jr. Lucien Laborde, Jr. WWII Home Front Ms. Patricia McCormack Major Walter C. Bliel, WWII Veteran Charlie Eddie Cobbs, WWII Veteran Marlin D. Powers, WWII Veteran Kelly Hunt Charles Kahn, Jr. Alden J. Laborde, WWII Veteran John and Kim Lloyd John W. "Red" McCormack Don Fishbeck, Jr., WWII Veteran Spencer Wattley, WWII Veteran Herman J. "Dutch" and Jane Prager, Jr. Jack L. Hunt Mr. David Kahn John P. Laborde, WWII Veteran Mark Loechelt Michael and Susan McCoy Mark G. Mod Ms. Jeanne Ostnes Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell Pratte Thomas William Robison, WWII Veteran Max E. Kahn, WWII Veteran Lucien P. Laborde, WWII Veteran Donavon and Glorianne Loeslie Elzie Lee "Blue" Lucas, WWII Veteran Bill Mod, USN, WWII Veteran John R. Bullard, WWII Veteran Mr. Jerry Precise Dr. Alan M. Robson Dr. and Mrs. Jack Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. William S. LaCorte David Fort, WWII Veteran John M. McCune George Mod, USAAF, WWII Veteran Emmett E. Dugan, WWII Veteran Mr. David Preng Oswell Robson Bernard Kaplan, WWII Veteran Sue Hand Lampton Glen Jostad, WWII Veteran John McCune Jim Mod, USN, WWII Veteran Leif Rudolph Ostnes, WWII Veteran Edward Prengowski, WWII Veteran William "Bill" Robinson, WWII KIA Stuart Wintner, WWII Veteran James M. Snedigar, WWII Veteran Bob Christiansen, WWII Veteran Melinda McCurry Robert Mod, USN, WWII Veteran George T. Wallace, WWII Veteran Edward Maras, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. William F. Roemer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy O. Kappert, Jr. Louis F. Snedigar, WWII Veteran Guy Lombard Charles Eugene McCurry, WWII Veteran Louise H. Moffett Family Foundation Mark and Karen Ostrowski Steve Price CDR. Michael H. Rogers Matsuko Kuwahara Kawaharada Dr. Karen Landers Gerald Lotenberg, WWII Veteran George Dwight McCurry, WWII Veteran Walter Paul Hohmann, Jr., WWII Veteran Edward Kwiatkowski, WWII Veteran Lauren E. Prince ACMM Harrison Holmes Rogers, Makita Kawaharada, WWII Veteran Delbert F. Wombacher, WWII Veteran Mr. Park Loughlin, WWII Veteran Geraldine Ferguson McCurry, K. E. Montague Frank Ostrowski, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mark Puskarich WWII Veteran Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Elizabeth and James Landis Larry J. Loving WWII Veteran Mr. Michael R. Montoya Lucinda and Rigby Owen, Jr. Anthony Puskarich, WWII Veteran Ms. Roberta F. Rogers Foundation Frederick S. Landis, WWII Veteran Harry Loving, WWII Veteran Richard Paul McCurry, WWII Veteran and Mrs. Dorthea Montoya Dr. and Mrs. Carey Page Walter Puhowsky, WWII Veteran Joel A. Rogers, WWII Veteran Brian Keelty Mr. Craig N. Landrum James R. Loving, WWII Veteran Mrs. Eugene McDermott Eustaquio Montoya, WWII Veteran Woodrow W. Page, US Army, Walter V. Latino, WWII Veteran Mrs. Zat Rolle Joseph Donald Kehoe, WWII Veteran Malcom Lamar Landrum, WWII Veteran Jane and Lloyd Lovitt Endowment Fund Eugene McDermott, WWII Veteran John D. Villa, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Todd R. Puthoff Dick Rolle, WWII Veteran Kelly Family Foundation James Albert Altman, WWII Veteran Lloyd B. Lovitt, Jr. Craig and Ann McDonald Joseph B. Moore Dr. James and Eva Pappas Charitable Fund Don R. Puthoff Ms. Jean Roman Gerald and Robert Kelly Mr. Eddie J. Landry Ms. Betty C. Low E. Jean McDuffie Norman W. Allen Grant at the Arkansas James D. Potterf Robert Ernest Roman, WWII Veteran Col. Robert Harper Kelly, WWII Veteran Eddie Landry, Sr., WWII Veteran Anthony Joseph Costa, WWII Veteran Tommy W. McGuire Mr. Steven Michael Morgan Community Foundation Natalie L. and Samuel M. Rabicoff Rear Admiral Robert A. Rosen, NYNM (Ret.) Mr. David Kelly Fert Daigle, WWII Veteran Ms. Kurtice C. Luther Sam S. McKeel, WWII Veteran Harry D. Morganstein, WWII Veteran Angelo Pappas, WWII Home Front Lt. Col. Obbie Lewis Boysie Bollinger John and Gayle Kelsey Conward Henderson, WWII Veteran John Wesley Luther, WWII Veteran James Gardner, Jr., WWII Veteran James and Janet Morgan Ms. Elaine Parkhurst Ms. Anna C. Radel Daniel D. Ross and Joan L. Ross Mavis P. Kelsey, M.D., USAAC, Donald Nixon, WWII Veteran Col. Kathleen M. Lux William L. McKenna Lloyd Eldridge Kelly, WWII Veteran Kenneth Parkhurst, WWII Veteran Earl Radel, WWII Veteran Mr. Larry Ross WWII Veteran John Hugh Nixon, WWII Veteran Cpt. Donald G. Lux (Ret.), USN, 1st Sgt. William Xavier McKenna, USAAF, Captain Richard B. Linnekin, Mr. James C. Parrie John L. Radel, WWII Veteran William Fay Ross, WWII Veteran Ms. Helen L. Kennedy Manny Pierron, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Peter Paul Parrie, WWII Home Front Dr. and Mrs. John M. Rainey Mr. Robert Rothman Edward C. Kennedy, WWII Home Front Rob Lang Harriet H. Lux, WWII Home Front SSgt. Albert J. Hopper, US Army, Charles Robert Kelly, WWII Veteran Paul Parrie Leonard Lee Rainey, WWII Veteran Harold Rothman, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kennedy Mr. Clarke Langrall General and Mrs. William Lyon WWII Veteran Morris Kurtzon Inc Peter Paul Parrie, WWII Home Front Lowell Doescher, WWII Veteran Ms. Catherine Rotolo Thomas E. Kennedy, Sr., WWII Veteran Jay Lapeyre Major General William Lyon, WWII Veteran Jackie McKnight Captain David Koch, WWII Veteran Mr. Ed Parson Thomas Crochet, WWII Veteran Charles Salvatore Rotolo, WWII Veteran John Austin Garside, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. William E. Lauer Virginia and Francis S. Maas T. G. Zager, WWII Veteran Mae Morris Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey and Mary Ann Parsons Lloyd Doescher, WWII Veteran Anthony J. Rouse Salvador Barcelona, Korean War Veteran William Leonard Lauer, WWII Veteran Paolo G. Parras, WWII Veteran Elmer Shinn, WWII Veteran Joseph Leighton Fail, WWII Veteran Jesse Robert Brown, WWII Veteran Davis Belanger, WWII Veteran Joseph Rouse, WWII Veteran Paul Ketteridge Mr. Jorge Lauriano, Jr. Mr. Warren Mabbitt John Joe McKnight, WWII Veteran Charlie Marion Morris, WWII Veteran Frank H. Foster, WWII Veteran Roland Belanger, WWII Veteran Mansel and Brenda Rubenstein George F. Ketteridge, WWII Veteran Robert William Everett Mabbitt, Jr., WWII Veteran Peter and Cecily McLean Clayton Tucker, WWII Veteran Robert S. Phillip, WWII Veteran Rainold Family Foundation Mr. Michael Rue Frederick Lapp, WWII Veteran The Lauricella Land Company Foundation Glen Mabbitt, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. McLeod Ms. Lisa Morris Mr. John Paul Emile A. Rainold, Jr., WWII Veteran Raymond F. Chappuis, WWII Veteran John M. Key Senator Hank Lauricella Kenneth Mabbitt, WWII Veteran Thomas J. McManus William Shelton Morris, WWII Veteran Cleo C. Paul, WWII Veteran Ms. Cordelia T. Ramsaur Mr. Gary Rupnik Ms. Suni Kim Mr. and Mrs. David L. Laxton III William MacClarence, WWII Veteran James F. McManus, WWII Veteran Conrad Doyle Morris, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Everett Paup Captain Raymond E. Gorton, WWII Veteran Mr. Matthew B. Saacks Suni Choi Kim, WWII Home Front David L. Laxton, Jr., WWII Veteran John MacClarence, WWII Veteran Ms. Judith Kurcz McNicholas Donald Jean Morris, WWII Veteran Mr. Irvin Payne Mr. Dwight Bo Ramsay, WWII Veteran The SahanDaywi Foundation Chung Shik Kim John Parks Laxton, WWII Veteran Donald A. MacDonald Gerald Vincent Byrnes, WWII Veteran Ward and Carolyn Morris Irvin L. Payne, Jr., WWII Veteran Audrey Sternberg Raphael Patricia R. Sallin John Kinghan and Zelma B. Fry, WWII Veteran Stuart W. MacDonald, WWII Veteran MSgt. Frank Charles McNicholas Ms. Dorothe J. Morton Ms. Joan H. Pease Sherman F. Raphael, WWII Veteran 1st Lieutenant John H. Sallin, David Lawrence Chambers III Page G. Lea Stanley E. McDonald, WWII Veteran Mr. Henry E. Meadows Mr. Bruno J. Moschetta Major Bradford N. Pease, M.D. Manfred Sternberg, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran David Lawrence Chambers II, WWII Veteran Wallace Bruce Lea, WWII Veteran Orien MacDonald, WWII Veteran Charles E. Sealy Anthony Moschetta, WWII Veteran Ms. Cheryl K. Pelton Lester J. Levy, WWII Veteran 1st Lieutenant Kathleen Prince Sallin, Mr. Peter Kingston Ms. Anne Lear Clifford Stover, WWII Veteran Claude W. Meadows, Jr. Anthony Ferrara, US Army, WWII Veteran Frederick C. Wallraff, WWII Veteran J. C. Rathborne WWII Veteran Lt. John C. Kingston, WWII Veteran George R. Lear, WWII Veteran Mrs. Rebecca Mackie Lt. John B. Thomas, Jr. Ken B. Murphy John H. Wallraff, WWII Veteran Mr. Keith O. Rattie Dr. Neal Sanders Dr. David and Mrs. Lori Kinnard Dr. Vincent W. Leaver C. Ellen MacNeil Lt. Col. Patricia A. Meid, USMCR (Ret.) Richard A. Murray John A. Rogers, WWII Veteran Robert E. Rattie, WWII Veteran Robert Lee Overton, WWII Veteran James G. Tate, Army Air Forces Vincent Hill Leaver, WWII Veteran Staff Sgt. James "Pete" W. MacNeil, Mr. John A. Mellowes Ms. Doris M. Myers Mr. Robert S. Perkin RDT, Inc. W. C. Lady, WWII Veteran Glenn V. Kinsey Pat Leaver King, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Martha and Jeff Melvoin Harry Wayne Myers, WWII Veteran R. L. "Buddy" Vanderheyden, Evelyn H. Tillery, WWII Home Front Dr. Marlin Elijah Sandlin, Jr. Norman V. Kinsey, WWII Veteran Doris Eddins Leave, WWII Home Front Lorinda Beth Madison James R. Hartnett, WWII Veteran Mr. Steven Nelson WWII Veteran Capt. Robert V. Goodlin, Jr., WWII Veteran Sgt. Roland Chaisson, WWII Veteran Mr. Jim Kissler M/Sgt. Lionel L. LeBlanc Ms. Karen Maerz Mrs. Nancy Merritt Ted L. Nelson Mr. Daniel J. Phelan Mr. Clifford J. Reeder, WWII Veteran Mr. Robert Sanson, WWII Veteran Lawrence Harvey Kissler, WWII Veteran Raphael G. LeBlanc John A. Loew, WWII Veteran Kerry Glen Merritt, US Army, Ms. Ilse Niedermayer William P. Phelan, WWII Veteran Dr. Scott R. Rehm Edward John Sanson, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Kitson Brig. Gen. Garrison Thyng, WWII Veteran Philip E. Allen, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Walter T. Niedermayer, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. Lynn J. Philippe Major George Preddy, WWII Veteran Henry Ernest Sanson III, WWII Veteran Ms. Toshiye Kiyoi Ms. Mary Ann Lee Cornelius J. Loew, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Meyers Mr. and Mrs. William G. Nielsen Joseph Hewitt Philippe, Mr. Russell Reitz Drs. Stephen and Mary Sapp Guy Takeshi Kiyoi, WWII Veteran Stephen V. Lee, WWII Veteran John L. Allen, WWII Veteran Douglas W. McIlhenny, WWII Veteran Fred Gula, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Melvin David Reitz, WWII Veteran Dennis and Kathleen Schabacker Larry M. Klairmont James T. Lamb, WWII Veteran Georges Maillot Lt. Cmdr. James J. Meyers, O. Al Aaker, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Philipson Mr. James A. Remington Ernest Nagy, WWII Veteran

50 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 51 STUART TREMBLY Stuart Trembly of Hanover, New Hampshire, was those years of national dislocation,” said Cornelia. John P. Strong, WWII Veteran "Red" Benjamin McHughes, WWII Veteran Sgt. George Garitty, WWII Veteran S. Earl Young, M.D., WWII Veteran Leigh and William H. Stubbs Dr. and Mrs. John S. White II ONE STAR DONOR a child of the 1950s. Growing up postwar, Trembly As further explained by Grevilda, “We children Kenneth E. Tucker, Jr. Ms. Merri Zilka gained a special appreciation of World War II, as even kept the secret of the federal agent who was Brig. General Clyde Massey, US Army, Kenneth E. Tucker, WWII Veteran Floyd Smurr, WWII Veteran Willie Charles Boehme, WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Pauline A. Fretz Tucker, WWII Veteran Roy T. Michael, WWII Veteran Mr. Sammy R. Zito did many children whose families served in the US stationed in our father’s general store to watch Thomas H. Stubbs, WWII Veteran Captain and Mrs. William M. Turner William White, WWII Veteran Melvin Tarver, WWII Veteran Armed Forces and on the Home Front. His family for enemy agents.” Their family home served as Spencer Stubbs and Joan Pedrotti LCDR. Jules Brown, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson Ms. Susan Brooks Zlaket was deeply patriotic and instilled in him the value a mock French residence in practice maneuvers Dr. Fred and Debbie Stucker Lt. Robert G. Haik, WWII Veteran Merrill Smith, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. John A. Brooks, Jr., WWII Veteran of service to home and country. for the Normandy invasion. “No New Year’s Eve Estelle B. Sullivan Mr. Sebastian Turso Captain Richard S. (Sam) Robert Zoellick and Beth Williams, USN (Ret.) Trembly’s mother, Grevilda Snider Trembly, or Fourth of July fireworks display has ever Richard M. Sullivan, WWII Veteran MSgt. Rocco W. Turso, Sr., WWII Veteran Mr. Kurt Zuch Ms. Abbie Sumners Unverferth Manufacturing Co., Inc. Captain Cyrus Falconer Fitton, Charles Thompson Zuch, WWII Veteran and his aunt, Cornelia Snider Yarrington (both compared in pageantry to the awe-inspiring sight Mrs. Yuri Sunbury Donald Unverferth, WWII Veteran USN (Ret.), WWII Veteran Ronald Charles Zuch, USN shown in photo), were young children when the of paratroopers dropping from the sky down into MSgt. Russell W. Sunbury, WWII Veteran Richard A. Unverferth, WWII Veteran Dal and Christina Williams Alex Olenic, WWII Veteran war broke out. They pitched in on the Home Front our front yard,” recalled Cornelia. Mr. Bernard Sussman Virgil L. Unverferth, WWII Veteran Edward Roy Youngs, WWII Veteran Hubert Andrew Mullins, WWII Veteran by scrapping, saving their allowances to buy war Trembly’s family was not without tragedy Murray J. Sussman, WWII Veteran Florence T. Upson Hershel Woody Williams And Eight Others Who Wish to Remain Mr. Hershal R. Williams bonds, and helping out at their family’s store in the during the war. His mother’s cousin, Lt. William Drs. Edwin and Dorothy Sved David Richardson Upson, USN, Anonymous Michael A. Swanner WWII Veteran John C. Dahn, Sr. M. Joanne "Jody" Belden, small town of Hoffman, North Carolina. Snyder Jr., made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his Chester Swanner, WWII Veteran D. Van Denburgh Mr. Robert J. A. and Norris S. L. Williams WWII Home Front Because Hoffman was near Fort Bragg life while fighting in France in 1945. Wallace A. Swanson, Jr. John Perkins Van Denburgh, "Commodore" Thomas J. Lupo, Mary Ellen A. Belden, WWII Home Front and Camp Mackall—both US Army training “Both my mother and aunt made sure I CPT Wallace A. Swanson, USA, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Sgt. William E. Belden, WWII Veteran facilities in North Carolina that also housed understood and respected what their cousin’s WWII Veteran Van Der Linden Family Foundation Robert E. Smith Lupo Donald J. Boucher, Sr., WWII Veteran Thelma C. (Jeanne) Swanson, ANC, George Elliot Williams, Jr., WWII Veteran German prisoner of war camps—there were many life and death meant for me and my generation,” Ms. Gloria B. Van Norden Jean Boucher, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Mr. Langdon Van Norden, WWII Veteran Mrs. Harold B. Williams Bernice Brown, WWII Veteran young servicemembers stationed in the area said Trembly. “His sacrifice along with all that Ms. Nancy Sweetland Scott VanNederynen Harold B. Williams, WWII Veteran E. Francis Brown, WWII Veteran who frequently visited the Snider family store to my mother, aunt, and the entire Trembly family Eugene David Sweetland, WWII Veteran Mr. Vincent Vecchiotti, WWII Veteran SGM Hubert M. Williams, U.S. Army (Ret.) William Brown, WWII Veteran purchase candy, cigarettes, and other items. “Our offered in service to our country remains the Ms. Marilyn Szulman-Jones Mr. Gary R Veeh Olen Williams, WWII Home Front Frank Chebetar, WWII Veteran store displayed posters to warn that the enemy motivation for my support of the Museum through James Carey Jones, WWII Veteran George M. Veeh, WWII Veteran Ms. Judith Wilson John E. Crow, WWII Veteran Mr. Leonard Tavernetti Thomas Brennan, WWII Veteran was always listening, and we helped watch for Patriots Circle.” Emily N. Vincent C. Paul Hilliard, WWII Veteran Ms. Rita Taylor Jack L. Vincent, WWII Veteran Col. Cornelius J. Wilson, WWII Veteran Joe Perkins Horn, WWII Veteran strangers who passed though our tiny town in Louis L. Spano, WWII Veteran Mr. Drury L. Vinton John F. Croall, Jr., WWII Veteran Richard Junghans, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Tew, Jr. William H. Vinton, Jr., WWII Veteran George F. McGeough, WWII Veteran C. Dewey Peterson, WWII Veteran L. M. Barnett, WWII Veteran Patrick J. Wade, M.D. John J. McGeough, WWII Veteran Edward Lloyd Peterson, WWII Veteran W. W. Tew, WWII Veteran Ms. Deborah L. Waggoner Edwin Wilson, WWII Veteran Richard R. Peterson, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. William E. Thibodeaux Woodrow Wilson Waggoner Mr. Jay Winford Woodrow Peterson, WWII Veteran Roy O. Martin, WWII Veteran Mrs. Joyce E. Wagner Joseph Richard Crosby, WWII Veteran Vito Vosilus, WWII Veteran Wilson E. Thibodeaux, WWII Veteran Joseph M. Wagner, WWII Veteran Mr. Turner A. Wingo Col. Paul A. Thomas Percy P. Matheson, WWII Veteran Frank Davis, Jr., WWII Veteran Madge Murphy Thomas, WWII Home Front Ernest R. Hersom, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Wink, Jr. Dorothy E. (Betty) Thomas Karl Clifford Wagner, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. Joseph C. Wink, WWII Veteran William Fred Thomas, WWII Veteran John N. Matheson, WWII Veteran Herbert Smith, WWI Veteran Daniel Thompson R. P. Wailes Albert Henley, USN, WWII Veteran Kenneth Woodstrom, WWII Veteran John and Marny Sherman Herbert Smith, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Joseph Horace Abell, WWII Veteran Mrs. Rochelle Walker Mr. Richard L. Winter Edward and Susan Scheinuk Charles Shoemate Mr. and Mrs. Sidney T. Smith Mr. Robert Spuhler William Wibel Thompson, WWII Veteran Harris Joseph Foret, WWII Veteran Melvin Lawrence Winter, WWII Veteran John Morgan Carlin, WWII Veteran Richard Osborne Shoemate, Marion Leroy Mize, WWII Veteran Dr. Kevin St. Clair The Thompson Family Mr. Michael R. Wallace Mrs. Gay Wirth Mr. Harry Scher WWII Veteran Rex Henderson Crockett, WWII Veteran Mr. Michael Stanberry Cpt. Michael Charles Bevis Dr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Wallenhaupt George Victor Luckett, WWII Veteran Edith Bard Kenneth E. Shuman Sidney Theodore Smith, WWII Veteran Wallace A. Stanberry, Cpt. Stanford Dawson Bevis, WWII Veteran Lee Rol Wallenhaupt, WWII Veteran Mrs. Carol B. Wise Amalia Eisenscher Mrs. Arlene K. Silver Pamela and Charles R. Smith WWII Veteran PFC Brandon David Lambert Joseph Kenneth Hamilton, WWII Veteran Ms. Pamela Friedler Leo Eisenscher Sgt. Perry Kuniansky, WWII Veteran Charles R. Smith, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Brian Stanley Lt. Col. William Marshall Montgomery, Young Ben Barber, WWII Veteran Roswell J. Weil, WWII Veteran Sylvia Scher Ms. Elida R. Silver Dr. Ellouise Bruce Sneed Ernest Greci, US Navy, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Franklin H. Ward Mr. Raymond Wisniewski Thomas Scherschel, M.D. Edward Sawyer, WWII Veteran Jasper Bruce, WWII Veteran Mr. William D. Stegbauer Jack W. Thomson Mr. James E. Warne, Jr., WWII Veteran Francis J. Walsh, Sr., WWII Veteran John P. Scherschel, M.D., WWII Veteran Walton Andrus, WWII Veteran Tillman Bruce, WWII Veteran Frank T. Stegbauer, WWII Veteran Dr. and Mrs. Henry K. Threefoot, Doc and Mim Warner Mr. John Charles Wohlstetter The Schiff Foundation Richard L. Silver, WWII Veteran Clell Bruce, WWII Veteran Robert Sternhell and Norma Grace WWII Veteran Col. Harold Ryder, WWII Veteran William Friedman, WWII Veteran John M. Schiff, WWII Veteran Drs. James H. and Peggy Soileau Simmons Arthur Eugene Day, WWII Veteran Mr. James Steverson Mr. Karrick Thresher Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Warner Ms. Margaret R. Wood Paul and Marilyn Schilling Charitable Sgt. Albert Bingham Cantrelle, Leon Day, WWII Veteran James Woodrow Steverson, Yvonne G. Thurber Henry Doeer, WWII Veteran Leonard E. Wood, WWII Veteran Donor Fund WWII Veteran David E. Snowden, Sr. WWII Veteran Harold S. Thurber, WWII Veteran Barney Warner, WWII Veteran Peter Wood Renee and Herbie Schilling Melvin Dies, WWII Veteran Lt. Col. John B. Snowden II, WWII KIA Mark A. Stewart Herbert T. Thurber David Warner, WWII Veteran A. Wilson Wood, WWII Veteran Herbert E. Schilling, WWII Veteran Mrs. Betty M. Simmons Sgt. John B. Snowden, Jr., WWII KIA Col. Charles N. (Chuck) Baldwin, Milton H. Finger, WWII Veteran Frank Warner, WWII Veteran Mark Woody Sylvon Rene Vidrine, WWII Veteran Joseph S. Simmons, WWII Veteran Col. Robert G. Snowden, USMC, WWII Veteran Mr. William C. Timmermeister Henry T. Warner, WWII Veteran John Foy Hanley, WWII Veteran Steve Schmidt Shirley B. Simpson WWII Veteran Reg Duncan, WWII Veteran John W. Timmermeister, WWII Veteran M. A. Warner, WWII Veteran Kathie Woolard Mr. Edward Schneider Mr. John Lawrence Skolds Ms. Margaret E. Snowdon, WWII Veteran Patti P. Stewart and Robert Z. Stewart The Timon Family Donald Arthur Washburn Frank X. Woolard, WWII Veteran Samuel D. Schneider, WWII Veteran Dale Clark Skolds, WWII Veteran Arthur Francis Edwards, WWII Veteran David H. Porter, Jr., WWII Veteran Charles A. Timon, WWII Veteran Donald Washburn, WWII Veteran Robert Perkins Berryman, WWII Veteran James W. Schoellerman Mr. and Mrs. William and Mary Skroch Charles Taft Snowdon, WWII Veteran Maryanna Stockholm Mrs. Cynthia Knodel Tollefson George Patton Waters Mr. Richard Workman Alvin L. Schoellerman, WWII Veteran James A. Gigl, WWII Veteran W. Cordes Snyder, Dr. Frank L. A. Gerbode, Herbert Rufus Tollefson, WWII Veteran General John K. Waters, WWII Veteran Lt. Clair Bardsley, WWII Veteran William W. Schoellerman Simon R. Skroch, WWII Veteran WWII Home Front WWII Veteran Edward Knodel, WWII Veteran Mr. William B. Watkins Meltian Grant Workman, WWII Veteran Carol White, WWII Veteran John B. Slater Delores Soroe Col. Galen L. Stone, WWII Veteran Rueben Knodel, WWII Veteran William C. Watterson Ida S. Worthington P. A. Schroeder Mike and Liz Slive Major Louis Soroe, USAF, WWII and Robert Gregg Stone, WWII Veteran Floyd Knodel, WWII Veteran Fred Sprague, WWII Veteran G. T. Worthington, WWII Veteran Donald C. Spong, WWII Veteran Ben Slive, WWII Veteran Korean War Veteran Mr. James E. Stott Raymond Knodel, WWII Veteran Dr. Raymond G. Watts Jack Thurman, WWII Veteran Mary E. Schultz Jack Slive, WWII Veteran Thomas F. Soule, Jr. Arthur E. Hager, WWII Home Front Laverne G. Tollefson James B. Watts, WWII Veteran Maria Jose R. Wright Captain William J. Schultz, Morris Ginsberg, WWII Veteran S/Sgt. Young W. Whelchel, Keith Anderson, WWII Veteran Walter Knodel, WWII Veteran Peter McDermott, WWII Veteran Joseph William Reddick, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Sol Gingold, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran Mr. Edward Stout, WWII Veteran Ms. Rebecca G. Townsend William D. Welch Mr. Peter W. Wright Russell K. Schulze Sol Slive, WWII Home Front Cpl. Thomas F. Soule, Sr., WWII Veteran George M. Strack Wendell Townsend, WWII Veteran Robert J. Welch, WWII Veteran MM1 Warren Francis Wright, Harold E. Scott Capt. Samuel W. Smith, WWII Veteran Fred S. Soules, WWII Veteran Strand Associates, Inc. Mr. Jeff E. Towslee Mr. John Weltevrede WWII Veteran Kathryn and Jeff Scurlock Janet Buchanan Smith Mr. Stephen Spence Karen Strand and Dr. Susan D. Borchers Peter Weltevrede, WWII Veteran G. Richard Wynn Bobby Stone Shackouls Lt. Colonel Donald P. Buchanan, Henry Norris Spence, WWII Veteran Robert R. Hohnhorst, WWII Veteran Mr. Thomas Travis Ms. Patricia Wessler Dr. George Howard Wynn, WWII Veteran David Edward Shackouls, WWII Veteran WWII Veteran John W. Spencer Ms. Edith Goff Street Louis Trabitz Travis, WWII Veteran Paul H. Wessler, WWII Veteran L. R. Yates Mr. Jim Shalley Linda and Lee Smith Dean Perry, WWII Veteran Clarence Ellis Goff, WWII Veteran Bruce Stuart Trembly Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr. Mrs. Frances Yates Mr. Ralph Shapiro Col. Lee G. Smith, Sr. (Ret.), WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Spitler Ralph Eugene Goff, WWII Veteran Ralph E. Crump, WWII Veteran and Jade C. West Emmett Lee Cary, WWII Home Front RADM and Mrs. Michael W. Shelton Lt. General Jeffrey G. Smith, WWII Veteran Wesley Allen Pitcock, WWII Veteran Warren Hassell Goff, WWII Veteran Grevilda Snider Trembly, WWII Home Front Raymond LaJeunesse, S. Yih MU1 William W. Shelton, WWII Veteran Col. Henry J. M. Smith, WWII Veteran Hugh Franklin Spitler, WWII Veteran Russel and Tricia Stromberg Cornelia Snider Yarrington, WWII Veteran Shon C. Yih, WWII Veteran Christopher Shepard Marc and Cathy Smith Mr. David and Dr. Gail Spivack Ben C. Stromberg, WWII Veteran WWII Home Front Adrienne and Walt Whatley Mr. and Mrs. John A. Yonover William Wooten, WWII Veteran Bernard A. Smith, WWII Veteran Pamela Sporing and Steven Altman Orville Stromberg, WWII Veteran Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Trosclair, Jr. Alice Young Wheatley Chapman Young III Ms. Dorothy Shepard Kenneth Bartley Reash, WWII Veteran William Sporing, WWII Veteran Dr. Gary B. Strong Joseph P. Koehl, WWII Veteran John Ed Phillips, WWII Veteran Major Chapman Young, Jr., WWII Veteran Lt. Col. Robert F. Shepard, WWII Veteran Edwin Smith, WWII Veteran Hugh Stephen Spruill, Rexford Cunningham, WWII Veteran Anthony Poloma, WWII Veteran Capt. and Mrs. John S. White, USN (Ret.) Mindy and Bill Young Charitable Trust

52 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 53 AMERICAN SPIRIT PETER AND MARY KALIKOW Peter Kalikow first became involved with The passing two years later. He recalls the day as a National WWII Museum in 1990, when friend grand celebration, and never before remembers Joy and Boysie Bollinger Stephen Ambrose asked for his help to create seeing so many generals and admirals in State of Louisiana Road to Victory a D-Day museum. Without hesitation, Kalikow one place. He describes the event as having United States Congress stepped up to provide support and became the more stars than a planetarium, and especially Capital Campaign first donor to what is today The National WWII cherishes the memory of joining with friends VICTORY Museum. As a WWII history enthusiast for most and WWII veterans John Whitehead and Hank Society of of his life, Kalikow’s early involvement became an Greenberg, who both became early supporters The Boeing Company inspirational and unforgettable moment. of the Museum. Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation Kalikow’s memories of World War II go as far Through a special gift made by Kalikow American Spirit back as childhood, when he and his mother moved and his wife, Mary, they hope to ensure a HONOR to his grandparents’ house after his father left to successful continuation and expansion of the serve in the US Marine Corps. Before his mother’s Museum. They are proud that their recent Richard C. Adkerson funeral decades later, he asked journalist and contribution will support the final push toward & Freeport-McMoRan Foundation Through the Road to Victory Capital Campaign, The fellow Museum supporter Tom Brokaw whether, in the completion of the Museum’s expanded Donna and Jim Barksdale addition to servicemembers, those who were on campus, ensuring that younger generations have The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston National WWII Museum will tell the entire story the Home Front—like his mother—were members a permanent place to visit and see the loyalty, The Duchossois Family of the American experience in World War II. When Goldring/Woldenberg Foundations of the “Greatest Generation.” Brokaw responded the pain, and the sacrifices made by what was Madlyn and Paul Hilliard completed in 2021, this $400 million expansion project with an unequivocal “yes,” and Kalikow used this truly the Greatest Generation. The Doris and T.G. Solomon Family will quadruple the size of the original Museum, adding statement in his mother’s eulogy. The Starr Foundation state-of-the-art program and exhibit space, libraries Of all his memories with the institution, Frank and Paulette Stewart and archives, and collections and conservation space. Kalikow’s fondest one is the opening of the Museum on June 6, 2000, when he saw friend An endowment campaign will provide long-term FREEDOM Stephen Ambrose’s dream come true before his funding for educational programs, research, collection Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation of oral histories, and future exhibitions. Capital One The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Marjorie and Ralph E. Crump Mr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer "Tim" Favrot, Jr. Ella West Freeman Foundation Hancock Whitney Bank Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker Hayes Horatio Alger Association Myrtis L. "Jeri" Nims The Priddy Family Foundation ALLIANCE Charles W. and Elizabeth D. Schubert Family Trust Mr. David Boies Kirkpatrick Family Fund Michael Rose and Debbi Fields Jennifer and Phil Satre & Carol "Kikie" and Robert Priddy Goodyear Foundation The Selley Foundation Gen. and Mrs. Walter E. Boomer USMC (Ret.) Ann & John E. Koerner III Jelly Belly Candy Co. Shell Oil Company The Pritzker Military Foundation Anne and Herschel Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Terence E. Hall Service Corporation Inc. Robert & Lenore Briskman Koret Foundation The Honorable Donald H. Rumseld Stonehenge Capital The Robert J. Ready Family Devon and Jackson Anderson Albert and Ethel Herzstein Dignity Memorial Fund Harvey R. Chaplin John E. Kushner Family Bill and Trudy Rutledge Taube Philanthropies Ricketts Family Anne Anthony Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dick Shea Lucille and Robert Cole Elaine & Ken Langone SAIC Pam and Mark Rubin IMO Robert J. Hanbury IMO Joseph de T. Hogan Jr., USMC Karen and Leopold Sher Cooper T. Smith Corporation Ambassador Howard & Gretchen Leach San Antonio Area Foundation Kathy and Joe Sanderson David and Stephanie Barksdale Iron Mountain James Sowell Crow Holdings Mrs. Dorothy W. "Dot" Lester Patrick Sands Family LIBERTY The Lori and Mr. Tom Benson Bill and Sue Johnson In Honor of 1st Lt. Billy Z. Sowell Cudd Foundation In Honor of George H. Lester Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Sherrill Bobby Savoie Family Mrs. Suzanne B. Bissell Jones Walker, LLP Stone Energy Corporation The Decherd Foundation Debra E. and Warner C. Lusardi Foundation Mr. Robert V. Siebel Annenberg Foundation Peggy and Carl Sewell In Honor of Major Jack R. Bissell Lt. Col. and Mrs. Robert E. Kelso Strake Foundation Houston, Texas Christopher Dewey Christy and John Mack Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP Baptist Community Ministries Superior Energy Services, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Blanchard Sr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Jeffrey Knittel Mr. Jack C. Taylor Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Maersk Inc. Pamela and Charles R. Smith A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation The Swieca Family Boh Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John P. Laborde Thomas C. Terrell, 1st Lieutenant, 7th AF The Dowd Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Neil J. Maki William A. & Madeleine Welder Smith Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation Estate of Patrick F. Taylor The Booth-Bricker Fund Coya and Frank Levy Tidewater Inc. Carolyn Davis Fernandez Mr. and Mrs. Robert Manzo Foundation Enhanced Capital Walmart Stores Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Bouillion Levy Rosenblum Family Foundation The Toler Foundation IMO Capt. Julian M. Fernandez The Marco Family in Honor of Max Marco Richard Paul Smyers Entergy Corporation Zemurray Foundation Boyd Gaming and Treasure Chest Casino Libby-Dufour Fund Union Pacific Foundation Bertram E. Fetter Ben A. Martinez Jr. Sony Corporation of America Enterprise Holdings Foundation The Brees Family Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Lilly Beverly Wainer in Honor of Lester Wainer Fidelity Homestead Savings Bank The John J. McArdle III Steven Spielberg Mr. and Mrs. James R. Fisher Sr., Frank Denius and The Cain Foundation Deborah G. Lindsay The Family of Frank H. Walk Mr. and Mrs. Alan I. Franco & Joan Creamer McArdle Foundation Standard Mortgage Corporation Clarksburg, New Jersey VALOR Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Canizaro Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Smith Lupo Walter Oil & Gas Corporation Charitable Frantzen/Voelker Investments, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Meyer III The Rich and Sue Sugden Family Forbes Foundation George R. Cannon Robert H. Malott Fund Foster Friess Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Mrs. Carroll W. Suggs The Alta and John Franks Foundation Lt. Commander Alden J. "Doc" Judy and Jamey Clement & Malott Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ted Weggeland Jeff & Debbie Gorski Dr. & Mrs. Gordon H. "Nick" Mueller Sun Drilling Products Corp. Judith and Louis M. Freeman Laborde, USN Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Coleman Mason Family Charitable Trust Virginia Eason Weinmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gardiner Marilyn Thompson Mueller IMO Leonard Pipkin Perry and Marty Granoff The Ashner Family Carmen & Jim Courter The Charles N. Mathewson Foundation and Ambassador John G. Weinmann Marla R. Garvey Murphy Oil Sycamore Management Corporation Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Evergreen Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David A. Cowan Jimmy & Lillian Maurin Edwin L. Wiegand Trust Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Godchaux III Musée Airborne The Gentlemen, LLC JetBlue Airways The Berger and Tiller Families Mr. Gordon Crawford Noel and Irene McDonald Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson Gulf Island Fabrication Inc. Ron and Mary Neal Kilin & Cecilie To Foundation Lamar Outdoor Advertising James S. Chanos Mr. and Mrs. A. Dano Davis and Family Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation Fred and Kay Zeidman In Memory of Calvin "Kelly" Haase Robert Newman Family Troesh Family Foundation Peter and Mary Kalikow The Charlie and Janette Kornman Robert A. Day Mr. and Mrs. Markham R. McKnight Anonymous The Hallett Family Foundation North Family Children Eli and Deborah Tullis The Lupin Foundation Charitable Fund Mrs. Betty B. Dettre Suzanne and Michael Mestayer Ron and Sandy Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O'Dowd Sari & Thomas H. Turner Raymond E. Mason Foundation FedEx Corporation David and Rosemarie S. DeVido Motorola Solutions Foundation INDEPENDENCE Frank William Harrison III The Octavia Foundation Mr. and Mrs. St. Denis J. Villere James S. McDonnell Family Foundation First NBC Bank Disabled Veterans of LA Chapter 4, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Newhall, III Terri and John Havens Optimist Club of the West Bank VT Halter Marine, Inc. & Mr. and Mrs. James S. McDonnell III GE Foundation & Auxiliary The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. Louis & Elizabeth Andrews The Hearst Foundations Oreck Family IHO David Oreck Courtney & Mark E. Watson Jr. National New Markets Fund Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Donovan Northrop Grumman Corp. aos architectural interiors IMO Sgt. John Howson Cdr. William Jim Pattison Christine Whitman Patricia, David, Elodie, Jacob, The Helis Foundation DSF Charitable Foundation Michael and Patricia O'Neill Apogen Technologies, Inc. Howson Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Payne Meg Whitman and Albanie Nierenberg Mr. and Mrs. David M. Knott Robert and Anna Edsel Matthew & Nancy Olcott AT&T Mr. & Mrs. K. Michael Ingram - James C. Pigott Jonathan and Lindsay Wilkerson Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust In Honor of Lt. William Mosey Mr. and Mrs. Lewis M. Eisenberg IHO Robert S. Olcott Battelle El Dorado Holdings Susan and H. Lewis Rapaport and Family Anonymous The E.J. and Marjory B. Ourso & Lt. Jack Heise EMC Isilon Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pattarozzi In Honor of John Leighton Batts J.C. Flowers & Co, LLC Audrey and Albert Ratner Family Foundation Lilly Endowment, Inc. Jerry B. Epstein Irene W. & C.B. Pennington Foundation Margaret S. and Bill Benjamin Karon and Jake Jacobs Records-Johnston Family Foundation, Inc. Pan-American Life Insurance Group The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Capt. John Ford Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly Jr. In Memory of Lt. Robert F. Spangenberg III Scott Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Rick S. Rees Robert J. Patrick Family Foundation, Inc. Dathel and John Georges Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Blair Pitch and Cathie Johnson The Reily Foundation Foundation Mark P. Norman The Gheens Foundation, Inc. William J. and Dina B. Riviere Philip D. Bodman, Jr. US Navy, The Kean Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. R. Randolph Richmond Jr. Pratt & Whitney Lt. and Mrs. James H. Stone Marian & Lawrence C. Gibbs H. Britton Sanderford USS Sutton, DE77 Mr. and Mrs. Norman V. Kinsey Mr. David Rockefeller

54 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 55 TAD TAUBE Tad Taube’s story with the Museum began in allowed Taube to attend Stanford University, 2006 when he was introduced to the institution helping lay the foundation for his future career by close friend Pete Wilson, former Governor ambitions—from real estate to his philanthropic Stephen E. Ambrose Our Mission. of California and current Museum Trustee. His work. As he explains, “In the minds of refugees passion for preserving and teaching history such as myself who have been embraced by this Legacy Society Your Legacy. strongly connected with the Museum’s mission, great country, there exists a level of gratitude for and ultimately led to his recent establishment of the opportunities we have had that is somewhat the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program analogous to a debt to be repaid. Some refer to it at the Museum. Through this effort, he hopes as a feeling of ‘giving back,’ but I prefer to call it to extend the Museum’s initiatives to share the wanting to ‘share opportunity.’” important story of the Holocaust and its ties Through a planned giving commitment to American history, including the US Army’s to the Museum, Taube and his wife, Dianne, are liberation of Nazi concentration camps, the confident that their estate plan will carry their Jewish American families who lost loved ones at legacy of expanding public awareness of World The Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy Society the hands of Nazi Germany, and the survivors who War II and its consequences that still impact lives recognizes 150 special individuals, couples, and relocated and rebuilt their lives in America. today. “The Museum is a national treasure, and associations who have included The National Taube’s personal family history ties closely I encourage others to sustain its efforts through to his educational endeavors at the Museum. a legacy gift that will have a lasting purpose for WWII Museum in their will, trust, life insurance Born in Kraków, Poland, he escaped the country future generations,” he said. policy, retirement assets, or other estate plans. just months before the Nazi invasion of 1939, These Legacy gifts support our mission to preserve and lost a significant number of family members and share the history of the American experience in the Holocaust. His parents created a new life for their family in the United States, and through during World War II. hard work and perseverance, their efforts

The 801st 492nd Bombardment Jay H. Frankel Urban G. Rump We remember with special gratitude the Paul J. Kranic Group Association Mr. Gail "Bud" Freeman Saundra and Peter Spilotro individuals whose Legacy gifts to The IMO Frank E. Kranic, MIA 1945 The 86th 'Black Hawk' Infantry Division Stephen Glassey IMO Herbert H. Macknick National WWII Museum have been realized. H. W. Lay Organization, Inc. IMO Maj. John R. Glassey Brian Stanley Mrs. Violet S. Michaels Robert J. and Maureen R. Avina G. Robert Hamrdla Frank and Paulette Stewart Darleen and Donald Alexander IMO Antony Michaels IMO and IHO Robert C. Bogash Robert Hellmers Taube Family Anne Anthony Charles R. Murray Charles W. Hendershott David Martin Hendrick Edward E. Thompson IMO Robert J. Hanbury Cdr. and Mrs. Henry O'Connor, USNR Craig and Lynn Bardell Stephanie Nigh Hendrick Florence T. Upson Patricia Ann Jean Barile Mrs. Kathleen "Kayo" Parker Jerilyn Batina Edward J. Hill IMO David Richardson Upson IHO her parents, Antheny A. Barlie Mr. Felicien "Gus" Perrin Justin M. Bein Madlyn and Paul Hilliard USS Phaon Reunion Group Ethel T. Barile Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. David Wesley Ewell Black, MAJ., Nelson S. Hoffman Michael B. Wanas and Karen Wibrew John and Virginia Bettencourt Noah Riley USA, Retired Grace O'Connor Hogan Russell D. Warner Pamela Jeanne Brooks Richard J. Rinebolt Robert and Lenore Briskman Wilbur Jay Huston Cherry Whitley IHO Aubrey J. Brooks, Jr. Paul Rivas Capt. Carroll Campbell Louise James Dr. Tryon Wieland Waldo C. and Arabelle J. Burnett Gordon Rosen Mr. and Mrs. M. Clinton Cannon Tyron Jamison Frank G. Wilson Edward P. Camp Ida M. Rucklos Edward C. Casaletto, Jr. Byron R. Johnson IMO Charles Wilson, Jr., Daniel Castner Clifford J. Rutstein CBI Veterans-California Group IMO Maj. Thomas R. Johnson, Jr. 282 Combat Engineer Battalion Robert Oliver Cole and Lucille Bishop Cole Harold M. Schubert Jo Ann Corey 1st Lt. Stewart Kenneth Johnson Jack Wm. Windt Robert W. Dannelly Jack M. Schwartz Cathy Cosenza Arthur Jones Col. William G. Yarborough Richard Dorney Lloyd F. Scott IMO Cpl. Louis A. Cosenza USMC WWII Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Leander Hank Zachry Carolyn Davis Fernandez Mrs. Kathe A. Shields Dr. Sol Courtman Mr. Lou Linxwiler Anonymous (10) IMO Capt. Julian M. Fernandez Abraham Z. and Norma Shanzer Mr. and Mrs. Dave Cowan Richard and Mae Livesey Nathan S. Elder Richard Paul Smyers Gail P. Cox Kearby Lyde Erwin Charles Ellerbeck, Jr. Marianne K. St. Claire IMO Everett A. Smith, Pvt. Frank Minichello Bertram E. Fetter IMO Col. William K. St. Claire Leslie H. Cox Mark P. Norman Henry and Audrey Fontcuberta James H. Stone IMO 2nd Lt. Howard L. Cox, Jr, USAAC Lawrence Nothdurft Jerome Gewirtz Arthur D. Thomas (1924-1944) IMO Milton H. (Funny) Nothdurft Dr. Morris W. Goldberg Margaret B. Thurlow Michael Crane Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O'Dowd Peter Gordon Gray and Julaine Roy Gray IMO YNCM Clinton S. Thurlow, Jr. Tom Czekanski Eileen Owsiany Thaddeus Gruszecki Mark Anthony Toups Allen E. Dewitt James C. and Sheila J. Parrie Aaron M. "Rick" Harris Maria Trainer IMO Alvin E. Dewitt IHO Cpl. William Kenyon RAF Judy Harris Edmund M. Urbas Geraldine K. Dewitt Drs. David J. and Marti E. Peck Lawrence C. Harris Georgette "Gigi" Viellion Wm. Craig Dubishar IMO 1st Lt. Clifford J. Peck USAAF 111th Donald A. Hoffman G. Paula Walter Delbert R. Duckworth TRS - KIA Sicily 1945 Jackie Hollis Henderson Edward J. Weber Walter H. Duke, Jr. Aimee Pergalsky Harry H. Howard Mrs. Liselotte Levy Weil Trish Eubanks Mary W. Pless William Daniel Huddleston IMO Leo Levy Roger L. Farney Lewis A. Post Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Jaffe Ferdinand Levy Charles Faught William B. Potasnak Loren C. Johnson Anonymous Col. Thomas G. Fierke Mr. Robert Prior Sophia Kallelis Capt. John Ford Frederick E. Ruccius IMO her husband Theodore S. Kallelis

56 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 57 HANCOCK WHITNEY Hancock Whitney has been a champion of the honoring only World War II. The ceremony recognizes Museum since its beginning as The National those who share the values and spirit of the Greatest D-Day Museum, helping to support the institution’s Generation and uses that commitment to keep Program Supporters capital campaign efforts. In 2005 the company our country a wonderful place to live and promote became a patron of the Museum’s programmatic opportunities for all Americans. Hancock Whitney initiatives by sponsoring its Victory Ball. Their support supports the American Spirit Awards because later continued through sponsorship of the Museum’s we faithfully believe in the American spirit.” This 70th anniversary of D-Day on-site events in 2014 past year, the Museum honored Maurice R. “Hank” and, most recently, as the presenting sponsor of the Greenberg, Senator John McCain, and Gary Sinise for American Spirit Awards for the past three years. their outstanding achievements that reflect the values Additionally, Hancock Whitney executives of teamwork, optimism, courage, and sacrifice and for have generously committed their time to serving their expression of the American spirit through the on the Museum’s Board of Trustees as well as its impact of their lives and work. committees, which help carry on the legacy the Hancock Whitney embraces its own set of The National WWII Museum thanks the following Museum celebrates. World War II also played a role core values to carry on the American spirit in the donors, whose support makes our exhibits, in the lives of many Hancock Whitney associates communities the century-old bank serves: Honor educational programs, outreach initiatives, and and executives. Some of them served during the and Integrity, Strength and Stability, Commitment war or are children of WWII veterans. President and to Service, Teamwork, and Personal Responsibility. commemorative events possible. These generous CEO John Hairston’s father, Mitch Hairston, was an Hairston continues to be inspired by how the Museum, individuals and organizations help us increase ammunition loader on the USS Fletcher DD-445 in through veteran volunteers, brings to life the firsthand understanding of the war that changed the world the Pacific theater. experiences of patriotism and spirit that rallied our among people of all ages across the nation. When asked what drew Hancock Whitney to entire nation to fight for freedom during the war. sponsoring the American Spirit Awards, Hairston “What the Greatest Generation achieved has allowed said, “The American Spirit Awards are broader than every generation since to grow and prosper,” he said.

Anne and Herschel Abbott Chevron John and Leslie Higgins Glenda and David McCarty Sidney Katherine Powell Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson Acadian Ambulance Service A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation Madlyn and Paul Hilliard Elise M. McDonald Robert and Kikie Priddy Stuart S. Wilson, III Ryan Adkerson Judy and Jamey Clement Max and Sunny Howard Memorial Ellis L. McDonald Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation Windsor Court Hotel ADS Transitions Lori and Gregg Cohen Foundation Elizabeth A. McDonald, MD Paul Reilly and Diane Atwood Family Carol B. Wise Victor and Elaine Agather Jim and Carmen Courter Diane and Jerry Hudson, MD William C. McDonald Edward and Helen Rhawn Fund WoodRock & Company Airbus In Honor of Jack Appel IBERIABANK Markham and Scottie McKnight Todd Ricketts and Sylvie Légère Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation American Airlines Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Cox, Jr. Arthur E. Imperatore and NY Waterway Colonel and Mrs. Larry Merington Bill and Dina Riviere Yuengling Beer Irv & Bee Apatoff Foundation, Inc. Crescent Crown Distributing, LLC Infogroup Nonprofit Solutions Julie Grant Meyer Barbara F. Rodes Anonymous (4) AT&T Jim and Kathy Crouch Gayle Higgins Jones and Attila Molnar Roth Law Firm Thomas P. August The Cudd Foundation Victoria Vosbein McCooey Janet and Jim Morgan Dr. Eduardo E. Rodriguez Anonymous in Honor of David and Edie Darragh Jones Walker LLP Morris Family Foundation Mark Romig The Honorable Rhesa H. Barksdale Frank and Janet DellaCroce Dr. and Mrs. John Patrick Jordan Motorola Solutions Foundation Pam and Mark Rubin Barton Cotton Fundraising Group Daryl E. Drake JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mutual of America The Sample Foundation Basin St. Station The Duchossois Family Foundation Nancy Kahn New Orleans & Company Kathy and Joe Sanderson Richard K. Beemer Michael and Emily Dunleavy Craig Kaplan and Anne Hess The New Orleans Advocate Dr. Bobby and Mrs. Lori Savoie Brandon and Daphne Berger EBSCO Industries Lou Kennedy and Stephanie Roman New Orleans Theatre Association Madalyn and Robert Schenk Berro Family Foundation Jenny and Jim Elkins Family Fund Edward and Pat Kingshott New Orleans Tourism Kathryn and Jeff Scurlock Beta Land Services, LLC Entercom Radio Peter and Jeanne Kinnear Marketing Corporation The Selley Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Blessey Fabenco Founding Fathers Foundation Kirkpatrick Foundation John Nicklow Peggy and Carl Sewell The Boeing Company Kathleen Favrot Mr. and Mrs. John E. Koerner III Patricia, David, Elodie, Jacob and Mr. Robert V. Siebel Char and Harold Bouillion FedEx Corporation Michael D. Kuhne Albanie Nierenberg Richard A. Slaby, Jr. Bourgeois Bennett LLC Fliesbach Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John P. Laborde NOLA Brewing Mike and Liz Slive Bourgraf Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Alan I. Franco Dr. and Mrs. William S. LaCorte Russell Nolan Solomon Group Bowen, Miclette & Britt Judith and Louis M. Freeman Laitram, LLC Northrop Grumman Foundation The Starr Foundation Cindy S. Boyd Freeport-McMoRan Carol and Sal Lalani Mark P. Norman Stemmons Enterprise, LLC John and Bonnie Boyd Pam Davis Friedler Mr. and Mrs. H. Merritt Lane III The Honorable Sam Nunn Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brennan Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Gallagher Latter & Blum, Inc. Ochsner Health System Frank and Paulette Stewart Samuel J. Broe Mr. and Mrs. James O. Gundlach LeadingAge The E.J. and Marjory B. Ourso Stirling Properties, LLC The Bruce J. Heim Foundation Tom & Carolyn Hamilton Liskow & Lewis Family Foundation Strake Foundation Lynne Burkart Hancock Whitney Bank Lockton Companies Admiral William A. Owens SYNCOM Space Services, LLC Sue and Rusty Burnett Ms. Cheryl Haspel Bruce J. Loewenberg Dr. and Mrs. Ed Palmer William M. Tebow Charles and Susan Butler Lois and Lloyd Hawkins, Jr. Foundation Louise H. Moffett Family Foundation Pan-American Life Insurance Group, Inc. ThirtyNorth Investments C. Jay Moorhead Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tucker Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Smith Lupo Robert J. Patrick Family Foundation Paul and Eva Thomas Vivian and Richard Cahn Fishman Haygood, LLP Magistro Family Foundation Patrick F. Taylor Foundation The TR Family Trust Cahn Family Foundation The Hebrew Home at Riverdale Dr. and Mrs. Neil J. Maki Peiffer Rosca Wolf Addulla Carr & Kane Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation (EHTF) The Cain Foundation Adrea D. Heebe Adair Margo Peoples Health Turner Industries Merrick M. Carey Albert and Ethel Herzstein Mr. Ben A. Martinez, Jr. Sonia Pérez Two Sprouts Lisa and Jeff Carter Charitable Foundation Edward C. Mathes Pilot Flying J Voorsanger Mathes, LLC Center Staging Susan and Bill Hess Jimmy & Lillian Maurin Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. The William & Anita Wahl Charitable Fund Lt. Col. Henry Cervantes (Ret.) Phil Hettema Col. and Mrs. Craig Mays Mr. and Mrs. William S. Potter Greg Welsch

58 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 59 CONNIE O’NEILL Connie O’Neill first became involved with The Squadron, 4th Calvary Regiment. Later in life, the National WWII Museum after hearing a presentation Purple Heart recipient took it upon himself to write at the Dallas Woman’s Club in 2015. “I was so a book of his experiences during World War II for Solomon Victory incredibly impressed that I wanted to honor my his children and grandchildren. He knew it was vital father with a gift to the Museum,” she said. To to share the importance of freedom. O’Neill and the Theater Seat Donors celebrate the birthday of her father, a WWII veteran, Museum are proud to honor Blass and other WWII O’Neill purchased a commemorative brick in his veterans within the Solomon Victory Theater. honor. Only after telling him of her gift did she learn he was one of the founding donors to The National D-Day Museum. O’Neill is committed to expanding the Museum’s educational mission so that younger generations can learn about the importance of the war. “It is critical that we continue to tell the story The National WWII Museum thanks the following of World War II to our children and generations to donors for purchasing a seat in the Solomon come,” she said. “We bury all of this knowledge Victory Theater to honor or remember a family each time we lose a veteran, so we need to move quickly to gather what we can from who we can.” By member, personal friend, or organization. An sponsoring a seat in the Museum’s Solomon Victory engraved plaque has been permanently affixed Theater, home to the extraordinary 4D experience to the arm of the purchased seat to recognize the Beyond All Boundaries, O’Neill has taken an active contribution. Such support helps preserve the role in supporting that mission. Her personal hero and father, 1st Lt. Gus Blass stories of World War II for future generations in (see photo) served in the 24th Reconnaissance this one-of-a-kind theater.

451st Bomb Squadron Association Jean C. & Michael D. Beckman Mr. Dan DeVito Agnes R. Hayden Deborah G. Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Newhall III Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller Sr. Emilia Soltis In Honor of the 451st Bomb Squadron IHO (1) Fritz L. Beckman IMO Joe DeVito IMO Donald C. Hayden IMO (1) Harry John Grosser, USAA IHO (1) Adair B. Newhall IHO (1) Laurance S. Rockefeller, US Navy IMO Joseph Steven Soltis USN Men Who Served in World War II (2) Thomas A. Wilson John A. Drews Adrea D. Heebe (2) William F. Grosser, USAF (2) C. Ashton Newhall (2) Edward Tipper D-Day 101st Frank & Paulette Stewart Karen & Ron Adams Scott Beninato IHO Frank Kelly KIA 1945 IHO (1) Frederick J.R. Heebe (3) Robert S. Lindsay, USN Robert P. Nimtz Airborne Div Paul Tagliabue IHO (1) Larry & Alice Melton IHO S. Sgt. Peter Beninato Robert Edsel (2) Gordon L. Bynum (4) Forrest Villarrubia, US Marine PTO In Memory of Paul Nimtz, Martin and Joan Rosen Foundation IHO Italo Rancan (2) Ron & Karen Adams Mrs. Adelaide Benjamin (1) A. Ray Edsel Jonathan L. Jacobs (5) Tom Blakey 1920-2015 D-Day Ray Eilenfeldt IHO Leon and Martin Rosen NY Patrick F. Taylor Foundation Richard C. Adkerson Family (1) Edward B. Benjamin Jr. (2) Norma L. Edsel In Honor of Pvt. William S. Cagan, Veteran 82 Airborne James P. Noll Leon Rosen, Bombardier Pacific IHO Buddy Jacobs AECOM (2) William Bell Wisdom (3) Marilyn F. Wright US Army (6) Bert Stolier US Marines PTO In Memory of Loren Clyde Johnson, Martin Rosen, Army, Europe and Pacific “The Roomies” In Honor of William P. Rutledge, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Blass (4) Ron B. Wright Marvin L. Jacobs 2nd Division Archaeologist Newport, MN Rotary Club of Metairie IHO Suzy and John Graham AECOM Board of Directors Foundation Trust Mr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer "Tim" Dotty and Buddy Jacobs Louise H. Moffett Family Foundation Vickie and Ron Norick Rotary Club of the Westbank Foundation Dorothy E. (Betty) Thomas Darleen Alexander In Honor of 1st Lt. Gus Blass II, Favrot Jr. Bill Janetschek J. Moffett Family Foundation IHO James H. Norick, USN Rotary Westbank/Gretna, LA IMO William Fred Thomas The Calvin and Marisa 24th Reconnaissance Squadron, IHO (1) Kay and Tim Favrot (1) IHO James R. Fisher, Sr. Lupin Foundation Mark P. Norman Bill and Trudy Rutledge Time-Life Books Allen Foundation 4th Calvary Group (2) Kelsey Bradley Favrot (2) IMO James J. Fisher, Jr. DFC Madison/Querbes Family IMO Mark W. Norman (1) Bill Rutledge Marvin D. Toombs IMO Calvin R. Allen Bob and Dee Boozer Finnegan Henderson Sue S. Janssen and Wendy Robinson IMO CAPT C.W. Robinson, Jr. The Peevy Family (2) Trudy Rutledge IMO (1) Jean & Marvin Toombs, VA Steven D. Alvis Susan Gore Brennan John H. Von Der Bruegge Jr, In Honor of Clarence Wayne Shreve, Ben A. Martinez Jr. IMO Virgil Edwin Peevy Christine Greeley Schalles (2) Carolyn & Jerry Hatfield John A. McGill IMO (1) Kathryn Briede Gore Operation Varsity 513 PIR, From Pacific Theater, World War II (1) IHO Ben A. Martinez, Jr. George A. Pontikes Jr. IHO US Marine Corps., Lt. Col. Robert W. Ken Valach Mrs. Stephen E. Ambrose (2) Dr. Benjamin Cromwell Gore Finnegan Henderson Pat and Kelly Jay (2) IHO Urban "UB" Martinez IHO General Michael P. Cokinos Greeley, Wake IS POW 1941-1945 IHO Harold Mgrublian (1) IHO Steve Ambrose Robert and Lenore Briskman Eleanor J. Fox Jerlyn Foundation / Carolyn Holleran (3) IHO John William Water B.E. Quinn III Gwen Schneider David R. Voelker (2) IHO Moira Ambrose IHO (1) Robert Berman, Bomber Shot Lt. Col. Lews V. Smith US Army, (1) Charles J. Holleran (4) IHO William J. Wegman IHO Joseph N. Tolle IHO Bruce F. Schneider WWII Veteran IHO Virginia W. Voelker American Beagle Down Over Hump Birthplace: Spiro, Oklahoma (2) Walter Raymond McGonigle (5) IHO Jose D. Martinez Toska and Barry Quinnies Edward H. Schulz Mrs. Donald Lyon White Squadron Association (2) Burton Gwirtzman, Battle of the Frezza Family Foundation Erik F. Johnsen Family Foundation (6) IHO John L. Martinez (1) Toska Quinnies IMO Bunnie Schulz Bullard, TX In Memory of Her Husband (1) The American Beagle Bulge Heroic Medic Mr. & Mrs. John J. Frezza, In Honor of IMO (1) Niels F. Johnsen (7) IHO Frank H. Roark Jr. (2) Barry Quinnies John Selling National Association of Squadron Association Samuel J. Broe Our WWII Veterans (2) Anita W. Johnsen Col. and Mrs. David F. Matthews Barbara L. Richardson Harry Selling DOB 5-29-20, B-17 Pilot Shot Wholesale-Distributors (2) 2nd P-15 Fighter SQ., 52 Fighter IMO Thomas G. Ferris, Navy Mr. James J. Frischhertz / Frischhertz Gayle Higgins Jones IMO Col C. Fort Matthews IHO (1) Dewey Tillman Lisenbee, Down, POW, Dad and Hero Loved By All IHO Governor Pete Wilson Group, 15 AF WWII Zelda and Richard Carner Electric Company Edith Key Mark A. Mayer Pacific Theater, US Marine Corp The Wilson Sexton Foundation Anonymous IHO 93rd Troop Carrier Squadron IHO B.C. Frischhertz Sr. IHO Edith M. Rubright Peter A. Mayer Advertising (2) Samuel Benjamin Lisenbee, IMO John T. Sexton WWI Tom Hanks Chalmette VFW Post 3706 Howard C. Gaines Carl LaGrotteria James R. McCabe Pacific Theater, US Marine Corp DeeDee and Eliot Simon Anonymous CMDR. Steve Mainville 1954 to 2017 IMO Maj. G. Clark Gaines IMO Vincenzo LaGrotteria Col. John R. "Packy" Roche, USAAF-USAF (3) Lee Roy Lisenbee, Pacific Theater, IMO (1) Norman Simon (1) Frank D. Hopkins; Captain, USAF; Hans Christensen Judith Galvach William P. Lanigan Mr. and Mrs. Paul C.P. McIlhenny US Marine Corp (2) Donald J. Wingbermuehle 64TC-18TH Squadron G. William Christensen, IHO Eugene B Gossnickle IHO John Lanigan Sr. IMO (1) Armond K. Goodwin (4) L.C. Lisenbee, Pacific Theater, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP (2) In Memory Of James A. Mangum Army Air Corps Larry and Marla Garvey Jean and Steven Lee (2) Paul W. McIlhenny US Marine Corp IMO Joseph H. Flom Elaine and Thomas P. August Don Kennedy Clover Lawrence D. and Marla Garvey (1) Quincy J. Lee Austin, Texas Candy McKey Patrice K. Richardson Pamela and Charles R. Smith IHO Lt. Col. William Hale Ferguson Don Kennedy Clover, WWII 82nd H. Ward Lay Foundation (2) Zachry S. Lee San Antonio, Texas IHO Dr. John D. McKey Sr. IMO a True American, Captain EW IHO Charles R. Smith US Army ABN 507 PIR, Silent Courage Joseph W. Geary 15th Air Force, (3) Travis M. Lee Boston, Massachusetts Arthur J. Moore Richardson, B24 Pilot and POW Daniel D. Smith Robert Cooley Bannon James A. Courter 450th Bomb Group Sq. 721 John Leseth Arthur J. Moore 29th Infantry Todd Ricketts IMO Commander Walter F. Smith, Mr. James L. Barksdale IHO Carmen Courter General Electric Company IMO Trygve A. Leseth Michael A. Morris Bruno S. Rinas US Navy IHO R. Barksdale - Cudd Foundation Hare Family Foundation John and Gail Liebes Trust Jacqueline Morris IHO of Bruno S. Rinas Theodore G. Solomon Sr. and West Point '66 Mr. and Mrs. A. Dano Davis IMO Henry Harold Hare The John Liebes Family Lorise N. Naquin Rex and Helen Ritchie Doris Carwie Solomon The D&P Bayly Family Foundation IHO Charles Douglas Gholson Jr. Keith Hawkins Kevin Lilly (1) IMO Irvin and Angel Templet Walter Harris, WWII 17th Airborne Div (1) Theodore G. Solomon, Sr. IHO George Vail Bayly Sr. Mr. Demo Kouzounis IHO Charles Doran Fretz IHO Lt. Trevor Rees-Jones, USN (2) IHO Lorise and Lucy Naquin Oakwood, Ohio (2) Doris Carwie Solomon

60 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 61 CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS The National World War II Museum, Inc. and Subsidiaries The National World War II Museum, Inc. and Subsidiaries Financials New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana

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2018 2017 2018 2017

ASSETS SUPPORT AND REVENUES Unrestricted Temporarily Permanently Totals Totals Restricted Restricted

Cash and cash equivalents 52,304,314 44,842,627 Grants 237,433 4,724,191 4,961,624 16,O55,825 Investments 2O,890,402 2O,4OO,82O Contributions: Unconditional promises to give: Capital Campaign 12,607,609 12,607,609 18,936,O81 Capital Campaign, 13,301,268 17,O9O,815 Endowment 1,000,000 2,111,751 3,111,751 322,673 net of allowances Other 3,395,007 910,023 4,305,030 3,988,792 Endowment, net of allowances 3,446,064 2,39O,165 Tax credit incentives 500,000 500,000 6,636 Other, net of allowances 1,638,699 1,228,676 Memberships 10,709,142 10,709,142 1O,213,245 Notes receivable 13,138,530 12,819,876 Admissions 18,309,062 18,309,062 15,874,388 Gift shop inventory 834,643 665,O41 Facilities and property rental 1,634,685 1,634,685 2,485,884 Other assets 7,039,557 3,929,352 Sponsored events and conferences 12,818,490 968,058 13,786,548 5,728,71O Property and equipment, 194,226,125 173,872,O3O Gift shop 3,709,640 3,709,640 3,375,51O net of accumulated depreciation Investment income 1,912,544 620,694 2,533,238 3,426,O31 Collections 13,062,884 12,564,559 Sponsorships 207,280 207,280 267,25O Miscellaneous 1,099,581 1,099,581 1,O63,995 Net assets released from restrictions 22,538,973 (22,538,973)

Total Assets 319,882,486 289,8O3,961 Total Support and Revenues 78,071,837 (2,708,398) 2,111,751 77,475,190 81,745,O2O

LIABILITIES EXPENSES

Accounts payable trade 2,813,187 1,928,478 Capital Campaign fundraising 1,822,577 1,822,577 1,928,28O Construction projects payable 3,788,423 1,599,75O and other Accrued expenses 2,959,782 1,795,1O2 Depreciation 8,139,025 8,139,025 7,728,O44 Deferred revenue 6,810,277 3,O18,614 Fundraising 2,605,931 2,605,931 3,O6O,967 Line of credit 1,908,672 3,652,185 General and administrative 4,279,765 4,279,765 3,727,369 Notes payable 22,341,652 17,586,341 Gift shop merchandise sold 1,890,682 1,890,682 1,7O2,676 Interest — amortized 271,221 271,221 271,221 Interest — other 474,356 474,356 559,235 Total Liabilities 40,621,993 29,58O,47O Museum expansion 1,196,654 1,196,654 1,14O,3O1 Programs and operations — 13,748,571 13,748,571 11,379,761 personnel costs NET ASSETS Programs and operations — 24,009,406 24,009,406 16,386,938 other costs Unrestricted: Board designated 29,217,653 7,969,350 Total Expenses 58,438,188 58,438,188 47,884,792 Undesignated 210,644,525 212,259,179

Total Unrestricted Net Assets 239,862,178 220,228,529 CHANGES IN NET ASSETS 19,633,649 (2,708,398) 2,111,751 19,037,002 33,86O,228

Temporarily restricted 20,465,199 23,173,597 NET ASSETS Permanently restricted 18,933,116 16,821,365

Beginning of Year Total Net Assets 279,260,493 260,223,491 220,228,529 23,173,597 16,821,365 260,223,491 226,363,263

End of Year Total Liabilities and Net Assets 319,882,486 289,803,961 239,862,178 20,465,199 18,933,116 279,260,493 26O,223,491

62 THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 63 Female “chippers” remove weld excess at the Marinship Corporation shipyards near San Francisco, 1942.