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New Exhibits

The Douglas Group of Houston and Washington, D.C. is working with the staff of the National Museum of the Pacific War, the Texas Historical Commission, the Admiral Nimitz Foundation and consulting Historian Dr. Wilson Dolman to design and fabricate the most comprehensive exhibit on the Pacific War to be found anywhere. In addition to the areas that the National Museum of the Pacific War has covered well in the past, such as Pearl Harbor and the Guadalcanal campaign, the new exhibit design will add major exhibits on:

• The long struggle in the Philippines—the Philippine guerillas, MacArthur’s return, the brutal fight to take Manila, and the fate of American and Philippine POWs
• The monumental naval battles in the Solomon Islands, the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf
• The Submarine War
• the central, but often ignored, role of China in the War and in the complex cultural and political dynamic of pre-war and post-war East Asia
• the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, including:
• The Flying Tigers, the Burma Road, flying “the Hump” across the Himalayas into China, American and Allied POWs on the Burma Railroad, and he joint American-Chinese-British campaign that defeated the Japanese Army in Eastern India, Burma and Southern China.

High Impact Experiences, employing large screen multi-media presentations, animated maps, narration and theatrical sound effects and lighting will include:

• Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu. Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
• Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in the history of the world
• The United States’ strategic bombing campaign against Japan’s cities and industries
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Enhanced high impact galleries, employing large screen multi-media presentations, artifacts, animated maps, advanced 3-dimensional imaging, narration and theatrical sound effects and lighting will include:

• The Attack on Pearl Harbor, The Battle of Midway and Victory in the Pacific

Major artifacts as the centerpieces of new exhibits complex will include:

• The Pilot House of a US Navy cruiser during a night battle at Leyte Gulf
• The Combat Information Center of a US Navy destroyer under kamikaze attack at Okinawa
• The casing of an atomic bomb, identical to that used against Nagasaki
• An Australia tank and the Japanese gun that destroyed it at the Battle of Buna on New Guinea
• The wreckage of an Aichi D3A “Val” divebomber to be the focal piece of an extensive exhibit on the costs of war

Ultimate victory or defeat in the Pacific depended on an unprecedented effort on the part of every segment of society, and 7 home-front galleries in the new exhibit tell the story of those who labored and sacrificed away from the battlefield, and of the changes the War wrought in American and Japanese life. These galleries will tell the great story of leadership, sacrifice, innovation, and social change on the home front as the United States turned the full power of its human and industrial capacity towards the defeat of Japanese aggression in the Pacific.

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