Let's Learn About the Rifle Port on our Soviet 2S1 Gvozdika!![]()
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The Many Uses of the Continental R-957 Radial Engine!![]()
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To all the vintage Jeep owners ~ On May 2, 2026, vintage Jeep drivers will gather at the American Heritage Museum for the Epic Willys Mini-Race (EWMR): Missile Mystery—a one-day, 100-mile adventure through the hidden landscapes of Cold War Massachusetts. A grand adventure! For registration and more information go to www.epicwillysminirace.com
Let's Check Out the Driver's Seat in our German Sturmgeschütz III!![]()
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Get Hands On With History This April Vacation!![]()
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When you visit us this April vacation, be sure to check out our exclusive Korean War discovery table, only available this coming Monday to Wednesday.![]()
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Accompanied by a knowledgeable reenactor, this interactive living-history exhibit gives you and yours the opportunity to personally handle and manipulate original and replica equipment that would have been used by tank crews in the Korean War.![]()
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Join us next week and experience history in a whole new way!![]()
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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.
