To the important folks in our lives, thank you for your dedication and support over the years. You keep us moving forward and ready for each new mission ahead! From all of us at the American Heritage Museum, we wish you and your families a Joyful Holiday Season and a bright 2025 ahead!![]()
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Everyone at the American Heritage Museum wishes all of you a very happy and healthy holidays! Please come visit! We will be hosting the Battle of the Bulge Experience Weekend on December 28th & 29th and will be open Monday and Tuesday, December 30th & 31st.
As you come to experience what it was like to be an American surrounded in the cold of the Battle of Bulge (12/28 & 12/29), join the American Heritage museum on Saturday December 28th to learn about a similar battle 6 years later in the Korean War. Here the U.S. 1st Marine Division found themselves surrounded in a desperate fight in the extreme cold, outnumbered 5:1 against Chinese forces in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Like the Battle of the Bulge, the Chosin Reservoir is regarded as one of the most intense battles in American History, yet most Americans know little of this great battle of Korea, “The Forgotten War.” On December 28th at 1:00pm the museum will host a speaker series event about the Chosin Reservoir: “All Roads Lead to Hagaru” a special interactive discussion analyzing the crucial leadership decisions in the Chosin Reservoir that would decide whether or not the 1st Marine Division would escape the Chinese trap. More information see: www.americanheritagemuseum.org/event/speaker-series-korea-all-roads-lead-to-hagaru/
Check out the latest video from SpruesNBrews Scale Modeling in partnership with the American Heritage Museum featuring our M18 Hellcat!
Up Close & Personal with the M18 Hellcat | 360° WWII Tank Destroyer Tour
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Welcome to *Up Close & Personal* - a new series where we'll be exploring some of the most iconic military vehicles of WWII and beyond as you've never seen th...
Don't miss our great talk on How To Research WWII Veterans - Friday, December 13th, 1pm to 2:30pm. No reservations needed. For more information see:
Speaker Series: How To Research WWII Veterans - The American Heritage Museum
www.americanheritagemuseum.org
Autumn Hendrickson, who has spent the last four and a half years working on a project to tell the stories of the men and women from Reading & North Reading, Massachusetts that served in World War II, ...
Battle of Iwo Jima Remembered
February 22, 2025 @ 10:00 am, ending 5:00 pm
Free with standard museum admission
Baker Company, 21st Marines, and 3rd Navy Medical Battalion re-enactors will set up table displays of equipment, weapons, and gear to educate the public on the Battle of Iwo Jima that took place February 19- March 26, 1945.
Iwo Jima was the second to last battle of World War II in the Pacific. It was the first and only island in the Pacific Theater where the number of American casualties outnumbered the Japanese. The fighting was some of the fiercest of the war in the Pacific.
On February 19th, 1945 Fourth and Fifth Marine Divisions landed on Iwo Jima. The fighting was so intense and casualties so high from the outset that February 21st the 9th Marine Regiment, and 1st & 2nd Battalions of the 21st Marine Regiments were taken from the 3rd Marine Division (sitting in floating reserve) and moved onshore to support the advancing Marine Line.
Over the next thirty-four days the Marines ground their way forward. The 21st Marines pushed across the second airfield, and the uncompleted airfield. Fighting using rifles, zippo tanks, bazookas, flamethrowers and hand-to-hand combat was long and arduous before Marines from 1st Battalion, 21st Marines saw the northern shore of the island.
Baker Company, and 3rd Navy Medical Battalion will have uniformed re-enactors on hand to interpret and discuss the experience of the Marines and Navy Corpsmen and surgeons who fought on Iwo Jima in honor of the 80th anniversary of the battle.
