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  • WWII Aviator Jackets

    Note: This exhibit is located in the connecting link between the World War II and Korean War Galleries. World War II USAAF aviators often personalized their flight jackets (usually the popular leather A-2 jacket), using such painted decorations as unit insignia, artwork that appeared on their

  • Evolution of USAF Flight Clothing

    Note: This exhibit is located in the connecting link between the World War II and Korean War Galleries.Through the years, advances in aircraft performance have increased the need for improved aircrew protection from the weather, a lack of oxygen, intense heat or cold, or even violent maneuvers in

  • A Child's Prized Possession

    In 1939 the Nazis increased their persecution of the Jews in Germany, forcing many of them to leave the country. However, these Jews had trouble finding another nation that would accept them. The British government decided to allow Jewish children under the age of 17 to enter the country. A series

  • The Violin

    On Nov. 9, 1938, a teenager, 15 years old, experienced the most violent, barbaric display of anti-Semitic acts ever recorded in history. I was that teenager!The day began by witnessing the purposeful destruction of the only Jewish vocational school in the area, while people cheered and applauded. It

  • Oxtail Club

    Treated, lathed oxtail club used by a German guard who was herding Jews at Dachau. It was taken from the guard at liberation by John Bird.Click here to return to the Holocaust Exhibit Overview.

  • A Liberator's Jacket

    A native of Dayton, Ohio, Sgt. Delbert Cooper served as a soldier with the U.S. Army's 14th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division in 1945. Cooper was among the first Americans to enter and liberate Gunskirchen Lager, which was part of the notorious Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. His most

  • Concentration Camp Uniform

    Perhaps the rarest artifact in the Holocaust exhibit, this concentration camp uniform is one of very few still in existence. It was given to the exhibit by Jack Bomstein, whose father Moritz wore the uniform while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald.Note: Allied prisoners of war interned at Buchenwald

  • Parallel Tracks to Germany

    During World War I, many American "Doughboys" traveled the front in French railcars displaying the notice that each car could carry 40 men or eight horses. Therefore, they quickly became known as "forty and eight" railcars. In World War II, "forty and eights" again transported supplies and troops to

  • Army Air Forces Victims of the Holocaust

    "The Japanese should hang -- not shoot -- every American terror pilot (Terrorflieger) then the Americans would think it over before making such attacks."- Advice given by Adolf Hitler on May 27, 1944, to the Japanese Ambassador on how to stop American air attacksAlmost 36,000 Army Air Forces (AAF)

  • Major Nazi Concentration Camps

    Arbeitsdorf, GermanyAuschwitz/Birkenau, PolandBelzec, PolandBergen-Belsen, GermanyBuchenwald, GermanyChelmno, PolandDachau, GermanyDora-Mittelbau, GermanyFlossenbuerg, GermanyGross-Rosen, PolandKaiserwald (Riga), LatviaKlooga, EstoniaMajdanek, PolandMauthausen, AustriaNatzweiler-Struthof,