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
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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, ...
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Book talk and signing. Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-day
December 6, 2019 @ 2:00 pm, ending 3:00 pm
Presentation by author Norman Fine –
Norman Fine received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science degree from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering.
After a consulting stint at the Raytheon Company, Norman and a colleague formed an engineering company where they designed and manufactured state-of-the-art graphic displays, many of which were high resolution radar displays for aerial reconnaissance by the Navy and Air Force during the Cold War.
Intrigued by the radar application for his company’s products, Norman explored the story of radar. He learned about a top-secret gadget invented in 1939 by 2 British scientists that turned the primitive radar known to the rest of the world, including the enemy, into an immensely improved radar — microwave radar — the performance of which was unmatched anywhere in the world. And only the Allies had it. His reading also led him to 2 characters — one very close to home — who were intimately involved in bringing microwave radar to combat in World War II.
Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar Brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II is the little-known story from first-hand sources of the cooperative efforts between a small band of scientists and warriors — British and American — who turned radar into an offensive weapon of war in the face of apathy and resistance from the entrenched military establishments. Norman contends that without it, D-Day would not have occurred on June 6, 1944, and if it had been attempted, it might well have failed.
