Ambrose became the moving force behind the creation of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

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The National D-Day Museum reopened in December, and the New Orleans Museum of Art should open its doors again on March 3.

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At the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, about 20 bicyclists clustered around World War II veteran and museum volunteer Tom Blakey, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division who jumped at Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944 and in May 1945 helped liberate the work camp at Wobbelin in northwest Germany.

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