World War II Remembered
Understanding WWII by Travel
Each
September I am remined of the Second World War. The war began 1 September 1939
and ended 2 September 1945 thus it lasted 6 years and 1 day.
This page
contains links to places that tell the story of World War II. I will update the
page as I visit other locations around the world.
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I was born
in London, England. For me, World War II is personal because my parents,
grandparents, and most of my family lived through the war in London or wherever
they were sent to defend my homeland. And World War II partly explains why I
live in America and not England.
We lived in a house where my mother was trapped in a closet beneath the
stairs when a nearby German bomb blast shattered windows and buckled the floor.
During my childhood, World War II was an historic family marker—family events
were told in terms of “before the war” or “after the war.”
After the US entered the war, an American soldier and one of my mother’s
sisters fell in love. They married at a London church near in England. My aunt joined him in America and, a decade
later, my American uncle sponsored us when my parents decided to emigrate.
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United Kingdom
Imperial
War Museum, London England World War II commands considerable space in the history of British
wars.
Imperial War Museum North - Manchester
HMS Belfast, River Thames, London, England
Churchill War Rooms, London, England
Bletchley
Park, England Discover
the role of British and allied intelligence efforts to break enemy codes.
Castletown D-Day Centre, Portland, England - Interactive Museum of the Dockyard where Americans embarked for Normandy
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Cambridge England
Historic
Dockyard, Portsmouth, England See stories of the British Navy at war.
Royal
Army Museum, London, England Learn the history of the British Army.
Royal
Air Force Museum, London, England See the planes that fought in the Battle of
Britain and note the tribute to the United States Air Force.
European Continent
France
Pegasus
Bridge, Benouville, Normandy, France
Utah
Beach Normandy, France
Sainte-Mère-Église,
Normandy, France
Pointe
du Hoc, Normandy, France
The
Battle of Merville Gun Battery
Grand
Bunker Museum, Ouistreham, Normandy, France
Hungary:
Shoes
on the Danube Memorial, Budapest
United States
The United
States officially entered World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, 7 December 1941. The US led the allies in defeating the Axis of
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
World
War II Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana.
This
massive complex tells the story of America at War in Europe and the Pacific in large
buildings full of artefacts and audio-visual presentations.
D-Day
at the World War II Museum
Boeing
Center at the World War II Museum
World
War II Memorial,
Washington, DC
Holocaust
Memorial Museum
Washington, DC
Truman
Library and Museum, Independence Missouri
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