How a coat once buried in a German backyard made it to Nebraska
Today is National Holocaust Remembrance Day. While the Holocaust might seem many decades and thousands of miles from Nebraska, we preserve objects and memories so people ...
World War II
What We Found
Marker Monday: B-24J Bomber Crash in Deuel County, 1944
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During World War II Nebraska was home to eleven air bases, which filled the sky with planes engaged in training aircrews. On June 7, 1944, ...
Marker Monday: German P.O.W. Camp
Our Historical Markers across Nebraska highlight fascinating moments and places in our state's past. Today we're focusing on a small marker that tells a big story: the ...
Marker Monday: Lost Airmen of World War II
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On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper ...
Marker Monday: Harvard Army Air Field
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Harvard Army Air Field, located two miles northeast, was one of eleven army air forces training fields in Nebraska during World War II. The ...
Marker Monday: Bruning Army Air Field
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Bruning Army Air Field, located northeast of here, was one of eleven army airfields in Nebraska during World War II. Construction began in ...
Sheldon’s World War II Posters
Addison E. Sheldon, pictured here supervising the work of Society employees, was superintendent of History Nebraska (then known as the Nebraska State Historical Society) ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Nebraska State Fair
It’s State Fair Time! Today’s Throwback Thursday photos features elaborate exhibits created with homegrown Nebraska apples. Both exhibits were created by the Nebraska ...
John P. Falter Sketch
John Falter in his studio, 1978, taken by the Philadelphia Enquirer
Nebraska native John P. Falter was a renowned illustrator and artist best known for the more ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, WAC Gladys Welch
In today’s Throwback Thursday photograph, WAC Gladys Welch sits smiling on an Army motorcycle at Fort Robinson. In 1943, a detachment of Woman’s Army Corp (WAC) was ...
Discover the Museum Collections
American Archives Month, October 2017
In celebration of Archives Month, this October we are talking about how you can access many of the wonderful materials in the ...
Enola Gay built in Nebraska
In February 1941 the Glenn L. Martin Company and the U.S. government began plans for an aircraft assembly plant at Fort Crook, Nebraska. At its peak in November 1943, ...
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