McCord Gallery Offers Rare WWII Exhibit
Documents signed by top WWII leaders and even a bell that survived an atomic bomb will be on display through Sunday.
Beginning today, Palos Park is hosting an elaborate World War II gallery at the McCord Gallery and Cultural Center, 9602 W. Creek Road, Palos Park.
Check out our gallery of McCord's former Civil War exhibit
The gallery will include documents signed by famous WWII leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Adolph Hitler. Uniforms, weapons vehicles and photographs will also be on display. They’ve even got a church bell that survived the atomic blast at Nagasaki, the Sun-Times reports.
“Some of it’s creepy, but this is history,” art director Lynne Terr told the Sun-Times Media.
Most of the artifacts on display are from the private collection of southwest suburban physician Dr. Joe Matheu. The exhibit will run through Sunday, March 10.
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bob busch
6:17 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
I hope some of the local people who contributed to the war effort
are remembered. My former scout master Mr.Loyd who helped develop the first
proximity shells and drove them from here to Maryland in the trunk of his car.
If a bricklayers strike had not postponed the opening of buildings Palos would
have been the site of the first atomic reaction as it was pile one was brought to
the " Forest Lab" ( Argonne ) when it opened in our woods.
bob busch
8:44 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
I should not write so early.What Mr Loyd developed was the first flichett
rounds for the us army.When he got to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in
Maryland they evacuated the guard post and had the bomb squad remove the rounds
from his trunk.