Day one of Oshkosh with the PBY-5A is in the books! Thank you to everyone that came out today. It was a pleasure chatting with all of you!![]()
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Coming up this weekend! America's Tank Demo Weekend at the American Heritage Museum on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26! See our newest Cold War era tanks in operation including M41 Walker Bulldog, M47 Patton, M60 Main Battle Tank, M60A2, and M88 Recovery Vehicle! Get tickets at:
America's Tank Demo Weekend - The American Heritage Museum
www.americanheritagemuseum.org
NOTE: EVENT ADMISSION INCLUDES ADMISSION TO MUSEUM America’s Tank Demo Weekend is where you can see some of the American Heritage Museum’s tanks spanning the history of American armor including th...
We are thrilled to announce that our PBY-5A has arrived to make it's airshow debut at EAA AirVenture 2026! Expect plenty of content surrounding this beautiful airplane over the next few days!![]()
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If you are attending Oshkosh, come on out and pay us a visit on Warbird Alley!![]()
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We’re on our way to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh with Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459 and the crew is spending the hours documenting what it was like to fly long patrols on the slow PBY. Here is a glimpse of some of the interior “comforts”, defensive positions, and views. Of course, in the 1942 North Atlantic, shorts and T-shirts would have been swapped for shearling coats and flight suits. Enjoy the clips! #wwii #pbycatalina #eaaairventure #warbirds #navalaviation
The PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459 is on its way to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI from Florida! The crew is passing through Georgia now and will be working into the Midwest for an overnight along the way. On the way out of Florida, the PBY flew over P-8 Poseidon's at Cecil Field - the same mission, 84 years apart! Before departure, we got a photo of the team at American Aero Services who worked on the PBY - there were many others that helped over the seven year span, but their dedication and excellence in craftsmanship truly made #2459 singular in regards to originality - thank you for everything, American Aero Services!
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Speaker Series: Rustic Warrior by Dr. Steven Eames
November 19, 2021 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
$10 – $20
The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them “a gathering from the scum of the worst people.”
Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers’ battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Dummer’s War, and King George’s War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors, he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war, as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial, French, and Native American approaches to war.
About Dr. Eames:
Dr. Steven C. Eames spent thirty-five years as a professor of history. His research interest focuses on the impact of war on people both soldiers and civilians. His published works include Sacrifice of Self: Nahant and the Civil War (won the American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit and Albert B. Corey Award, also an award for the New England Museum Association), and Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748.
This presentation is being presented from 1:00pm to 2:30pm on Friday, November 19th and is included as part of standard admission to the American Heritage Museum. You may purchase admission on the day of the event at the Admissions Desk or you may purchase tickets online to be emailed to you at the General Admissions eTickets link here.
