July 4th, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the formation of the United States of America, marking our independence from the British Empire. ![]()
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Happy Birthday, USA! 🎈🎉🎂![]()
You don't look a day over 200.![]()
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We are open Friday, July 3rd through Sunday, July 5th - 10am-5pm Daily in celebration of Independence Day and America's 250th Anniversary! Come learn about our military heritage from 1776 through today! All in air conditioned comfort! Tickets at:
Purchase Tickets Online - The American Heritage Museum
www.americanheritagemuseum.org
Purchase Your General Admission Tickets Online and Save Time and Money!* Online tickets are $2 off in-person tickets! The American Heritage Museum is open every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, ...
Please join us tonight for an amazing presentation from 6pm-8pm as part of History After Hours at the American Heritage Museum. Standard Museum Admission available from 5pm to 8pm and Veterans & First Responders are free tonight as well. AHM Museum Members also admitted free.
www.americanheritagemuseum.org
On Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 6:00 pm the American Heritage Museum will host Oral Histories of American Patriotism with Dr. Kevin P. Wallace and L. Wright Wallace, authors of the new book Van of Valor....
Congratulations to Dennis Cooper of Evansville, WI! Dennis is the winner of the Grand Prize 1944 Ford GPW Jeep from the Road to Victory WWII Jeep Sweepstakes! A huge thank you to everyone who entered and participated - we raised over $317,000 for the American Heritage Museum and all proceeds help us grow into our next phases that will include a home for all of our historic aircraft here at the museum. Stay tuned for our next exciting sweepstakes launching later this summer!![]()
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Speaker Series: The Party Dolls – Escape from the Zoo Annex – Vietnam POW Story
July 5, 2025 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
Free with standard museum admission
Join us on Saturday, July 5th, 1pm to 2:30pm, for an engaging talk by award winning author George Hayward on his book The Party Dolls.
On 10 May 1969, two American prisoners of war escaped from a brutal Hanoi prison camp called the Annex. Their story is one of incredible bravery against the longest of odds. It’s also one of bitter conflict. Air Force Captains John Dramesi and Ed Atterberry escaped with help from their fellow prisoners, but that help was not given freely. The suffering it brought killed Atterberry, and scarred others for life.
Photo: John Dramesi on the left, AHM’s Hanoi Hilton Exhibit center, Ed Atterberry on the right.
THE PARTY DOLLS is the riveting, award-winning* true Vietnam War story of a failed escape code-named “the Party,” told by the former POWs who planned it. Author and former Air Force journalist George Hayward wrote it based on interviews he did between 1995 and 2002 with those POWs, and never released until this book. This is the most detailed account ever released of a heroic yet divisive—and little-known—episode from a divisive American conflict.
*2021 winner for Nonfiction Military History, Best Indie Book Awards® (BIBA®) and 2022 winner Military Nonfiction, Independent Press Awards.
