Here is this week’s challenge for “What is it Wednesday?” - What is it?! 🤔![]()
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Thanks to everyone who played last week… The answer for November 12th is the traverse drive gear on our M3 GMC… see the previous post for the full details!![]()
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Good luck on this week’s challenge! ![]()
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The answer to the “What is it? Wednesday” question from November 12th is the traverse drive gear on our M3 GMC (Gun Motor Carriage)! This gear is powered by a handwheel behind the gun and is used to aim the cannon left and right.![]()
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Stay tuned for the next “What is it? Wednesday” question tomorrow, November 19th at 10:00 am EST!![]()
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Let's Learn How to Start a 1916 Ford Model T!![]()
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Join us today at 1pm for a special presentation by Ed Sweet: World War II in Europe – A Photo Journal Presentation. No reservations needed.
The American Heritage Museum is featured in a new episode of Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words on YouTube, where renowned historian Victor Davis Hanson sits down with American Heritage Museum President Rob Collings and Board Member Bill Boller to tackle one of World War II’s most persistent legends: the supposed battlefield superiority of German tanks. Watch the episode at the link below:![]()
Victor Davis Hanson: Debunking Myths Around WWII German Tank Superiority
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On today’s bonus edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor interviews Rob Collings and Bill Boller of the American Heritage Museum. Located ...
Speaker Series: Mud Pies and War Planes By Ashlen Hyatt Nunnery
February 13, 2026 @ 2:00 pm, ending 3:30 pm
Free with standard museum admission
“What happens to a family when a war steals not just a person, but the future they imagined together?”
Told through the eyes of a young girl coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mud Pies and Warplanes is a powerful and intimate memoir of love, loss, and legacy. As her father disappears into the unknown skies of Southeast Asia, she watches her mother struggle to hold their world together and begins to navigate a complex landscape of silence, strength, and survival.
Written with raw honesty and deep emotion, this story captures what it means to grow up in the shadow of war, and the quiet ways it reshapes everyone it touches.
About the presenter: Ashlen Nunnery is the daughter of late Capt. Leo G. Hyatt, USN (Ret.), a Navy pilot who became a Vietnam POW in 1967 when she was a little girl. Some of Capt. Hyatt’s original clothing and possessions during his imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton are now on display at the American Heritage Museum.
