joining us live now on board, gentlema we saw to cement myth ago, keith huxen. thank you ray much for being with us -- thank you very much for being with us. your museum is part of the 21st-century model where you it waso experience what like. it is much more than artifacts and display. how did that come about? mr. huxen: are museum exley has a great investment in the museuml narrative -- our actually has a great investment in the personal narrative, the men and women who fought in the war. that tradition goes back to our founder, stephen ambrose, who incorporated history into his book. the approach of the personal narrative, and trying to bring things to life for people on a personal level, really began 's work.rose when you hear those descriptions from people, i think ou overall approach grew out of that organically. me take up something that you talked about on the road to berlin exhibit. take us back to the early 1940's. the japanese had attacked us and december 19 41, and yet, the u.s. and its allies freely had an approach that would allow the troops to go

my name is keith huxen and i am senior director of research and history here at the museum in neebs. we're standing in the road to berlin, permanent gallery exhibits which opened in december 2014. after several years have had development. our mission here at the national world war ii museum is to tell the american experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won. and the building we're in tells the story of how it was won. here we are in the first gallery of the road to berlin. behind me, you see the political leaders of the axis and the ally powers, the line-up, if you will, of the two sides that will engage in this great struggle. when our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe that they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum. so with the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to the five major strategic elements that the united states and our allies must master in order to win world war ii. these five key strategic elements include arsenal of democracy, building a greate

my name is keith huxen and i am senior director of research and history here at the museum in neebs.cember 2014. after several years have had development. our mission here at the national world war ii museum is to tell the american experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won. and the building we're in tells the story of how it was won. here we are in the first gallery of the road to i

we are joined by keith huxen. thanks again for being with us.hat concerns -- you were talking about general eisenhower , what concerns keith: could you repeat the question? host: what concerns did eisenhower have prior to d-day? keith: he was concerned they were going to fail. a lot of things could have gone wrong. we were at the whim of the weather. we were supposed to launch the d-day invasion on june 5 and eisenhower showed leadership in that he was calculating the chances for success. if you can imagine being in his position with hundreds of thousands of men and plans ready to be sent into motion on his word, there was pressure but he delayed it because of the weather. he thought it would not succeed for 24 hours. this was difficult for the men who were loaded up into the seas and were on the