National WWII Museum brings history to life with an interactive AI exhibit as visitors can converse with veterans and home front heroes, asking questions and getting answers.
Peter Crean of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans stands at an interactive exhibit with an image of Japanese-American WWII veteran Lawson Ichiro Sakai, who served in the U.S. Army, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. / Photo: AP
Four years in the making, the project incorporates video-recorded interviews with 18 veterans of the war or the support effort — each of them having sat for as many as a thousand questions about the war and their personal lives. Among the participants was Marine Corps veteran Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Wilson, a Medal of Honor Winner who fought at Iwo Jima, Japan. He died in June 2022 after recording his responses.
Ageing veterans have long played a part in personalizing the experience of visiting the museum, which opened in 2000 as the National D-Day Museum. Veterans often volunteered at the museum, manning a table near the entrance where visitors could talk to them about the war. But that practice has diminished as the veterans age and die. The COVID-19 pandemic was especially hard on the WWII generation, Crean said.
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