The trip to the NEW YORK HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM greatly
differed from that of the MET experience. At the MET, all the exhibits seemed
to be uniquely focused on and organized. At the NYHS, the exhibits were more of
made into like a collage type. The exhibits were vibrant and interesting to
read. There were recordings available to listen to, there were prop jet planes
in the air above our heads, and there were bright lights and signs taken from
the 42nd street area where most soliders back then would spend their
time if they were in New York before going off to the war. The people in the
museum were people of all ages. There were defiantly an older crowd as well as
a few young people checking out the exhibit. Some things that caught my eye
were the newspaper of “Hitler dead in chancellery, Nazis say: Doenitz successor,
orders war to go on: berlin almost won; U.S armies sweep on”. I Found it
interested how the main heading in the newspaper of that time had multiple
titles or messages as oppose to the headings newspapers use today are
different. I read in one exhibit, out of all the armed forces the army had the
most people, at 10,420,000 men alone. The navy came second with 3,546,179, the
marines was third and lastly was the coast guard. There were statistics of the
casualties in WW2 which saddened me as well as caught my attention, 60 million
people died which included 400,000 americans and 18,000 new Yorkers. Another
sad statistic I read in the last exhibit, “the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki killed 135,000 and 50,000 people respectively. Some perished instantly
while others died from the after effects of radiation.”
