80th Anniversary of D-Day

Commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the NVMM! Experience the World War II era with reenactors from various service branches and tents on the lawn and throughout the Museum sharing authentic and period military attire, implements and equipment. Guests can try their hands at creating a working parachute for an Army figure and making a D-Day paratrooper clicker.

At 3 p.m., join us for a program featuring Black Rifle Coffee Company’s new D-Day documentary film created with Beyond the Call; videotaped remarks from John Gleeson, a 100-years-young WWII Veteran, B-24 bomber pilot; and insightful conversations with historians and curators from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Research Lab. They will focus on the role of the U.S. Army Air Forces clearing the skies on D-Day and supporting the Army as Allied forces moved through Europe.

Don’t miss our newest traveling exhibition, Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II, exclusively sponsored by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation, which shares the story of a top-secret unit. These unsung heroes of the U.S. Army 23rd Headquarters Special Troops mastered the art of battlefield deception, using creativity and cunning to outwit the enemy and protect countless Allied lives.

Mike Thompson spends much of his time correcting people who mispronounce the name of his hometown – Worcester, Massachusetts. Mike studied broadcast journalism at Syracuse University when he was not running in circles – as a distance runner on the SU track team.

Mike has worked in public and commercial radio and television in New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio earning numerous awards for investigative, enterprising, and feature reporting.

Mike earned an MBA from Ohio State and uses that knowledge to program 89.7 NPR News and manage Ohio’s best radio news staff. At home it’s Mike’s wife Mary who puts up with him.

They have teenage twins- William and Madeleine. Because Will and Maddie now want very little to do with their father, Mike has found the time to resume his running career and competes in the Columbus Marathon and other races. (By the way it’s WUH-Ster or WUH-Stah in the vernacular.)

Jeff Duford is currently a Senior Historian in the Air Force Research Laboratory History Office at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.  He has studied air power history and technology for more than 45 years and participated in several national and international television documentary productions, most recently the Smithsonian Channel series “Air Warriors.” Before joining AFRL in 2021, Mr. Duford was a curator and historian at the National Museum of the USAF for more than 20 years.  While at the NMUSAF, he was the lead curator and project manager for the Memphis Belle Project, curated numerous exhibits across the Museum, worked closely with the Museum’s Restoration Division on more than 60 aircraft projects, and developed the layout and storyline for the Museum’s exhibit galleries.

Dr. Doug Lantry has been a curator at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA, since 2000, and also serves as the museum’s historian. His curatorial focus areas include space and missiles, strategic nuclear deterrence, the First World War, the Korean War, and the Southeast Asia War. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Technology with a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware as a fellow in the UD-Hagley Program in the History of American Industrialization. He also is a retired U.S. Air Force Reserve historian, serving at Headquarters U.S. Air Force and U.S. Strategic Command, with deployments supporting operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar.

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June 06, 2024
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10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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