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National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
Established June 6, 2000, the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the National D-Day Museum features photos, planes, boats, and smaller artifacts commemorating the events of more than half a century ago.
Why New Orleans? you may ask. The answer is that Andrew Higgins, a New Orleans boatbuilder, designed and built the flat-bottomed landing craft used in the invasion, without which the invasion as we know it would not have been feasible.
The museum resides in a 19th-century brewery building at 945 Magazine Street.
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