Jery Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  July 2026  Cadillac is a name in American automobile history that conjures a certain image of luxury, of floating down the highway ignoring the potholes, of arriving at the opera house or the country club dressed in your finest attire. Perhaps you envision the infamous 1959 El Dorado Biarritz with its towering tailfins, the highest ever […]

Jerry Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  July 2026  At a time when Americans politics is a divided system and it is all too easy for someone to label as a “Nazi” or a “Fascist” another person with politically different opinions, it is worthwhile to remember an election in Louisiana during World War II when similar charges overshadowed the real […]

Jerry Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  July 2026 Examples of uniforms on display at Jackson Barracks Military Museum Thomas Jefferson included several grievances that American colonists held against the British government as he framed the reasons for separation from the British Empire in the Declaration of Independence. One of them was the argument that […]

Jerry Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  June 2026  The United States military used different sizes of equipment as it fought its way across Africa, Europe, and the vast areas that it covered in the Pacific during World War II. One of the most unusual was the Piper J-3 Cub, a small fabric- covered airplane manufactured by Piper Aircraft between 1938 and 1947 that was known as the L-4 […]

Jerry Sanson, Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  June 2026  The Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum exhibits an information board focused on German submarines that operated in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II. Their presence was the subject of rumors; people spotted mysterious shapes in the water; military patrols found evidence of their presence; and they sank ships in the Gulf, confirming […]

Jerry Sanson Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum May 2026 The Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum includes copies of LIFE magazine from the World War II years in the Home Front exhibit because it was a major source of news and pictures about the war that kept members of many households informed about war progress. It was a major icon during the early 1940s, reportedly reaching an audience of about 22.5 […]

Jerry Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  May 2026  While Louisiana is often remembered for the Louisiana Maneuvers or as the site of a network of training camps during World War II, the state’s businesses contributed to the war effort as well. Industrial war production focused mainly on urban areas and included New Orleans, Shreveport, Lake Charles, Lafayette, […]

Jerry Sanson  Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum  April 2026  Louisianians on the home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways. Some joined Civilian Defense and scanned the skies on the lookout for enemy aircraft over their neighborhoods. Others supplied labor to farmers who desperately needed it to produce agricultural products for the war, or they tended their own Victory […]

Jerry Sanson Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum, April 2026 American farmers experienced increasing trouble during World War II finding enough workers to complete the work necessary for them to grow food and fiber that they needed to produce for the war effort. New or expanded businesses offered higher incomes and often better working conditions than […]

Jerry Sanson Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum April 2026 President Franklin Roosevelt was well-known for his delivery of important speeches to the American people over the relatively new medium of radio. His famous “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” came from his first Inaugural Address, and many Americans first heard those stirring words […]