After leaving the beach through a German bunker, visitors emerge onto a cobblestone path next to a ruined factory building. 1st Division soldiers, veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, camouflaged in white sheets are emerging from a forest supported by a Sherman Tank.
Field telephones provide an opportunity to eavesdrop on communications.
Nearby, Chicago Tribune correspondent Jack Thompson dictates a story as he types amid the factory rubble. Newsreel footage illustrates this description of the Big Red One's fight across Europe. The Cold War gallery includes displays on the Nuremberg trials, where the First Division served as guards, as well as the occupation and partitioning of Germany, where the 1st Division remained until 1955. Another background section providing the historical context to the conflict in Vietnam is followed by figures of American and Viet Cong soldiers and a chronological description of the Division's actions during the war. Visitors then enter the jungle, where there is another opportunity to listen to radio communications during battle.