Written by Owen Myers. In appreciation for the installation of the F-105 Thunderchief into the American Heritage Museum’s Vietnam War exhibit. It is July 24th, 1965, and United States Air Force Captains Richard Keirn and Roscoe Fobair are flying in their F-4 Phantom escorting a strike package of F-105 Thunderchiefs on their way to strike […]

On September 16th and 17th, the American Heritage Museum will host a WWI and Aviation living history event. This is a weekend event everyone is looking forward to! We will showcase four extraordinarily rare aircraft from WWI and WWII. These aircraft are the 1918 Nieuport 28 – oldest flying and first American fighter, 1933 Waco […]

Join us Friday, June 30th at 2:00 PM for our AMH Speaker Series with James Fenelon author of “Angels Against the Sun: A WW2 Saga of Grunts, Grit and Brotherhood.” In the tradition of Band of Brothers, Fenelon offers a boots-on-the-ground perspective of the 11th Airborne Division—nicknamed ‘The Angels’—in their daring campaign to liberate the […]

June 6th, 1944, marks one of the most pivotal moments in history—the Normandy landings, also known as D-Day. It was a day that forever changed the course of World War II, and it stands as a testament to the bravery, sacrifice, and resilience of the Allied forces. As time passes and the number of living […]

The Holocaust was one of the darkest moments in human history, where millions of innocent people were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II. Six million Jews, homosexuals, people with disabilities, minorities, people based solely on their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or political affiliations were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime during […]

For the first time ever – the American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts and the Tank Museum in Bovington, England have teamed up to offer an extraordinary one-of-a-kind tank experience sweepstakes. Winner will go to the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts to drive the famous M4 Sherman tank and M24 Chaffee Tanks, then go to […]

Under restoration in the American Heritage Museum’s restoration workshop, the original World War II vintage M36 Jackson Tank Destroyer is making great progress this spring! Under the supervision of our team leader Dick Moran, a team of volunteers have been hard at work over the winter and spring. One of the major efforts has been […]

Plight of American POWs in Vietnam Realized in an Extraordinary Exhibit On 50th Anniversary of Their Release. The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts opens the Hanoi Hilton POW Experience Exhibit on February 12th, fifty years after their 1973 release during Operation Homecoming. Coined the “Hanoi Hilton” by American prisoner-of-war Robert Shumaker, the Hỏa Lò Prison […]

The Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, was a complex and divisive conflict that resulted in the deaths of over 58,000 American soldiers and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians. The war officially ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. The accords represented a major step towards […]

In partnership with the WWII Museum’s Normandy Academy in New Orleans, the American Heritage Museum is offering an 11-day expense paid trip for one high school junior level student to France on June 26th to July 6th, 2023. The student will join the Normandy Academy group to see all the major sites related to the […]

In early 1918, with the air war over the skies of France and Belgium reaching their most dangerous point, American pilots with the Allied Expeditionary Force were anxious to take the fight to the German menace. Unfortunately, the French SPAD XIII aircraft they wanted were in short supply. France had trouble with engine production and […]