Military Museums - New Orleans and Monroe Louisiana

After spending yesterday at the World War II Museum we travel 300 miles to Monroe Louisiana to spend the night in the parking lot of this museum.

Little did we know the history of this place.  

In World War II this was a very large base for training bombers and navigators.

 

General Claire Lee Chennault was instrumental in founding the Flying Tigers who trained and fought with the Chineses against Japan before the outbreak of World War II.

The Japanese started expanding into China in 1931, their atrocities prompted General Chennault to form a volunteer group who fought against the Japanese well before Pearl Harbor.

We were so lucky to meet the general's granddaughter, Nell.

She had many stories of her grandfather and his influence.

Yesterday:  New Orleans 

and the World War II museum- just one of the best museums of WWII