
1941–1945
World War II
The United States mobilized millions of people and vast industrial resources to fight a global war.
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390th Memorial Museum
Tucson, AZ
A Tucson museum centered on a B-17 Flying Fortress and the service of the 390th Bombardment Group in the air war over Europe during World War II.
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Addis Museum
Addis, LA
A small community museum in a historic former bank and post office that preserves Addis’s railroad-era and local history.
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Arkansas State Capitol
Little Rock, AR
Arkansas's working statehouse is a grand early-20th-century neoclassical landmark where visitors can explore the architecture, history, and ongoing work of state government.
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Battleship Cove
Fall River, MA
A waterfront fleet museum where visitors can board landmark American warships spanning World War II through the Vietnam era.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn, NY
A landmark New York shipyard where generations of workers built celebrated American warships and where historic industry continues within a modern manufacturing campus.
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Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
Cape Canaveral, FL
A 151-foot active lighthouse that links Florida's maritime heritage with the launch complexes of Cape Canaveral.
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The United States mobilized millions of people and vast industrial resources to fight a global war.
Last updated August 2, 2026
Road Trips in this Era

Defending the Delaware: Forts from Civil War to World War II
Follow a century of Delaware coastal defense from a Civil War island fortress to a modernized river fort and the World War II batteries at Cape Henlopen.
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FDR's Georgia: Warm Springs and the New Deal
Spend a day in the Georgia landscape that became Franklin D. Roosevelt's refuge, political laboratory, and enduring New Deal legacy.
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New York Harbor at War
Explore shipbuilding, naval aviation, coastal defense, and an aircraft carrier across the military landscape of New York Harbor.
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Rohwer & Jerome: Japanese American Incarceration in Arkansas
Visit the surviving landscapes, memorials, and museum that interpret Arkansas’s two World War II Japanese American incarceration centers.
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