Doors Open at 0800am - Presentation Begins at 0900am The PBY Catalina is an amphibious aircraft that was involved in some of the most critical missions of World War II.

Doors Open at 8am    Presentation Begins at 9am   The P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the most effective fighters and fighter-bombers of World War II.  Powered by an 18-cylinder Pratt and Whitney engine with a turbo-supercharger the Thunderbolt could reach speeds of

Independence Day Celebration! Grumman F7F Tigercat Flight Demonstration Friday, July 4th—All Day Museum Open 10am to 5pm

Late in WWII the Curtiss SB2 Helldiver dive bomber sent Japanese warships to the bottom of the ocean and pulverized fortifications on Japan’s home islands.

According to General George Kenney, McArthur’s air commander in the Southwest Pacific, “Pappy” Gunn played a key role in the success of the 5th Air Force during WWII. Kenney said of Gunn, “He was a gadgeteer par excellence”.

Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the U.S. during World War II, 122 were escort carriers. The escort carrier, carrying the U.S. Navy hull designator CVE, was a small and slower type of aircraft carrier used by the

One of the final missions of the air war over Europe was the April 25th, 1945, bombing of Linz, Austria by elements of the 15th Air Force flying from bases in southern Italy.

History Presentation Davey “Tokyo” Jones—The Doolittle Raid and the “Great Escape” Prison Camp Saturday, February 22, 2025 Doors Open at 9:00am    Presentation Starts at 10:00am   In response to the Japanese December 7, 1941, attack on Hawaii and the Philippines, President Franklin Roosevelt directed that

Doors Open at 9am         Presentation Begins at 10am The China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) was “the forgotten war” of WWII, but Burma was the linchpin of the war in the Far East.  The invasion of Burma gave Japan a launching point for its

On Saturday, December 14th, at 10:00 a.m., Lead Docent Les Doggrell will present the story of “The Arsenal of Democracy” – how U.S. industry in cooperation with the federal government armed and supplied both the U.S. and its Allies