Who would have thought that
you would find the National Museum of the Pacific War in the middle of Texas,
over 1200 miles from the Pacific Ocean. We discovered that Fredericksburg was
the hometown of Admiral Nimitz, the Commander in Chief of Pacific Ocean Areas.
Admiral Nimitz represented the US during Japan’s signing of the instrument of
surrender.
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| An armoured, tracked, people mover. It floats and has paddles on the track |
We spent hours at the museum
walking thru the exhibits, reading the info, watching videos and looking at
static displays.
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| Genesis with "Fat Man" a model of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
As you walked thru the museum
it was in chronological order with huge tables with video screens in them that
would show logistics of air attacks and water born attacks. It really helped
our understanding of the events as they unfolded. Something that Peter mentioned that he learned was that U boats are made of wood. Because they are painted grey like all of the steel ships, he just assumed that the U boat was too. They could make 3 wooden ships for the price of one steel one and they were more easily repaired than steel boats.
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| Captured Japanese Zero on Floats |
We slipped out of the museum
for lunch and because Fredricksburg has a strong influence from German
immigrants we ate at one of the German restaurants having chicken schnitzel,
cheese pork schnitzel, a variety of bratwursts and spatzle (egg noodles)
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