ScaleModelNetwork's video: WWII Battlefield Reenactment Short Film The Pacific War Museum

Directed by YouTube user Mark Bristol: http://www.youtube.com/user/static242?feature=guide National Museum of the Pacific War http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Museum of the Pacific War is located in Fredericksburg, Texas, the boyhood home of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Fleet Admiral Nimitz served as CinCPAC, Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet during World War II. The six acre site includes the Admiral Nimitz Museum which is housed in the old Nimitz Hotel and tells the story of Fleet Admiral Nimitz beginning with his life as a young boy through his naval career as well as the evolution of the old hotel (now museum) in Fredericksburg, Texas. The museum The Admiral Nimitz Foundation was established in 1964 (as the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Naval Museum, Inc.) to support a museum honoring Fredericksburg's native son, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces, Pacific Ocean Area. The hotel owned by Nimitz's grandfather Charles Henry Nimitz was restored to its original design and renamed the Admiral Nimitz Museum by an act of the Texas legislature in 1969. The original intent was to focus only as a memorial to Admiral Chester Nimitz. In 2000, the complex was renamed National Museum of the Pacific War and is dedicated exclusively to the Pacific Theater battles of World War II. The Pacific Combat Zone is a re-creation of a Pacific island battlefield, and includes a Quonset hut hospital, a PT boat and base, Japanese tank, palm trees, and machine gun placements. Re-enactments are held throughout the year. The Veterans' Walk of Honor and Memorial Wall can be found within the Memorial Courtyard. On May 8, 1976, the 130th anniversary of the founding of Fredericksburg, the Japanese government gifted the museum with the Japanese Garden of Peace. The garden was designed by Taketora Saita as a replica of the private garden of Russo-Japanese War Admiral Heihachiro Togo (1848--1934), whom Admiral Nimitz personally admired and for whom he had previously helped to establish a war memorial. Plaza of the Presidents on the Museum grounds The outdoor Plaza of the Presidents was dedicated on September 2, 1995, the 50th anniversary of Admiral Nimitz' acceptance of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). The plaza is a tribute to the ten United States Presidents who served during World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commander in Chief), Harry S. Truman (Commander in Chief), Dwight D. Eisenhower (Army), John F. Kennedy (Navy), Lyndon B. Johnson (Navy), Richard Nixon (Navy), Gerald Ford (Navy), Jimmy Carter (Navy), Ronald Reagan (Army) and George H. W. Bush (Navy).