| Fredericksburg Photos: Nimitz Museum - Outdoor Displays - Combat Zone - Town Photos - Wildseed - Luckenbach |
 National Museum of the Pacific War |
August 10th, 2007
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 Starting the tour of the George Bush Gallery |
 Rise of Hitler brought the coming of war in Europe |
 Japan resented the 3/5ths (US & Britain) naval allowance brought by the Treaty of Washington |
 America rearms as 1937 atrocities in Nanking reinforces Western views of cruel, sadistic Japanese |
 Japanese midget submarine Ha-19 captured after |
 . . . running aground during Pearl Harbor attack |
 Shown displayed on mothership I-24 in route to Pearl |
 American false security at Pearl Harbor helped the Japanese attack succeed |
 American naval officers uniform worn during attack |
 Uniform of a US Marine on Wake Island |
 Initially a battle cruise, the Akagi was completed in 1927, reconstructed in 1935-38, was flagship for the attack on Pearl Harbor and sank during the 1942 Battle of Midway by USS Enterprise dive bombers | |
 Wake Island defenders response after initial assault: Send More Japs! They were unable to hold out |
 Japan needed British Malaysia, rich in oil & rubber, and wiped out Singapore's token resistance |
 Japanese-americans sent to internment camp, 1942 |
 Water cooled, .303 inch, Vickers machine gun |
 Army airforce uniform and bomber jacket |
 Doolittle's Raiders fly Army B-25s off the USS Hornet |
 The Raiders bombed Tokyo in April, 1942 |
 Bomber jacket and pistol taken on the raid |
 Top is a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) Below: Model 96 Nambu light machine gun |
 Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal |
 Pacific island base model emphasizes rats |
 Anti-aircraft gun guarded by more rats |
 Another angle on the rats guarding the gun |
 Scrapped aircraft lie around the base |
 Mechanics work on a tired Wildcat |
 The man in the back unloads ammunition |
 US M2 60mm Mortar required a 5 man crew |
 British BREN Mark III light machine gun |
 Browning M1919A4 could fire 450 (30.06) rounds/min |
 Island hopping started with Tarawa in Nov, 1943 |
 Battle flag taken by marines from Beito Island, Tarawa |
 Flight suit of a US Carrier Pilot |
 M3 "Grease gun" .45 calibre submachine gun A cheap substitute for the Tommy gun |
 Supplying the troops was the most vital victory |
 Model of battleship New Mexico (BB-40) which was sent to the Atlantic before the attack on Pearl Harbor Hit by two kamakazis during the war at Luzon and at Okinawa and present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender | |
The Grandfather of the Guided Missile US SWOD Mk 9 "BAT" Radar Guided Bomb carried to battle under the wing of a B-24 |
 The Bazooka & Flame Thrower were key in taking out entrenched enemy troops |
 Flightsuit of the Japanese kamikaze pilot |
 Russian DP-28 machine gun has only 65 parts |
 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' leadership helped win the war |
 Medals awarded during the Pacific War |
 Model of battleship Missouri (BB-63); The ship supported the invasion of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and hosted the Japanese surrender ceremony; the only commissioned battleship in the world during the 1950's; Mothballed in 1955, recommissioned in 1986, decommissioned in 1992, & Pearl Harbor museum in 1999 | |
 Model of battleship Tennessee (BB-43); was wedged between Arizona, West Virginia, & Maryland and hit by two bombs during Pearl Harbor attack; refitted by May, 1943 for better antiaircraft battle worthiness Used mostly for invasion bombardament since too slow to keep pace with aircraft carrier task groups Fought in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, & Okinawa where she was hit by a kamikaze Mothballed in 1946 and scrapped in 1959 | |
 Model of battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38); sister ship of Arizona; in dry dock during attack on Pearl Bombarded Kwajalein Island, Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and fought in the Battle for Leyte Gulf Torpedoed at Okinawa, used for a target ship at Bikini Atoll, studied post blast, and then sunk in 1948 | |
 Huge 18 foot model of the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) |
 David poses by GHWB's carrier pilot portrait & model of the Tennessee (BB-43) |
