| WW II OPERATION FOOTLOCKER |
| Traveling Artifact Trunks The National WWII Museum is launching Operation Footlocker, providing schools across the country with unique hands-on opportunities to explore the history and lessons of WWII by exploring WWII artifacts. These traveling trunks, made possible by a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, are designed to supplement WWII education in the classroom. Each footlocker comes loaded with actual artifacts from WWII (not reproductions!). Of course, no weapons or ammunition are included. But there are ration books, V-mail letters, dog tags, sand from the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, wartime magazines, a high school yearbook from the early 1940s, and many other artifacts, both commonplace and surprising. There is even a fascinating artifact from the famed Manhattan Project. Footlockers come complete with white cotton gloves for handling the artifacts and a teacher’s manual that describes each object and contains directions for conducting artifact “reading” sessions. |
