On this day in 1941, a PBY Catalina helped locate the German battleship Bismarck. Long-range patrol aircraft like the Catalina became essential eyes over the ocean in the Battle of the Atlantic. The American Heritage Museum is close to completing our epic restoration of a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942-1943. The restoration taking place in Florida will be wrapped up this summer and the aircraft is planned to make its first public appearance at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Airshow in July.
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The final month is here for the Road to Victory WWII Jeep Sweepstakes!![]()
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Now through June 4th, use promo code DOUBLEDN to get DOUBLE ENTRIES with every purchase toward winning an original, road-ready 1944 Ford GPW Jeep.![]()
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The sweepstakes closes June 21st, and the Grand Prize will be drawn June 30th. Enter today and help support the American Heritage Museum’s mission to preserve and share history for future generations.![]()
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The Road to Victory Sweepstakes - Win a Road-Ready, Original WWII Jeep!
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The American Heritage Museum is open on Monday, May 25th from 10:00am to 5:00pm in observance of Memorial Day - General Admission tickets may be purchased at:
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This Memorial Day, we pause to honor the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States. Their courage, devotion, and selflessness secured the freedoms we enjoy today and continue to inspire generations of Americans.![]()
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As we gather with family and friends today, may we also remember those who never came home and reflect on the true meaning of the day.![]()
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From all of us at the American Heritage Museum, we thank and remember our fallen heroes. Never forgotten.
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Battle for Berlin
IS-2 Iosef Stalin – RUS | TANK
SU-100 – RUS | TANK DESTROYER
Messerschmitt ME-109G-10 – GER | AIRCRAFT – FIGHTER
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was one of the last major offensives of the European theater of World War II. On April 16th, 1945 massive Soviet forces attacked from the north, east and south. Over the course of the next week, the Red Army gradually took the entire city. The forces available for the city’s defense included roughly 45,000 soldiers in several severely depleted German Army and Waffen-SS divisions. These divisions were supplemented by the police force, boys in the compulsory Hitler Youth, WWI veterans and women’s auxiliary units. Knowing his inevitable fate, Hitler committed suicide on April 30th in an underground Berlin bunker. The city’s garrison surrendered on May 2nd, but fighting continued to the north-west, west, and south-west of the city until the end of the war in Europe with the German formal surrender to the Western Allies on May 8th and to the Soviet Union, in a separate ceremony, on May 9th.
