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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Speaker Series – V-Mail In WWII
December 7 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
Free with standard museum admission
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Sunday, December 7th, 1941, plunged the United States into a world-wide war that stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, North Africa, India, China, Australia, and islands across the vast Pacific Ocean. Ultimately, some 16 million men and women joined the armed services over the course of the 42 months of the conflict. Among the most important means of keeping up morale of all service personnel was, in these pre-Internet days, sending and, most importantly, receiving letters and packages from home. However, transporting tons of mail by ship – the primary means of overseas transport then – could take weeks and, sometimes, months to reach destinations. However, one means had been devised, based on something the British had come up with months before Pearl Harbor, that a joint effort by the Department of War (Army/Army Air Forces), Navy Department (Navy/Marines/Coast Guard), and the Post Office Department began planning for in the months before Pearl Harbor … V-Mail.
Photographer-filmmaker-historian David Watts, Jr. will tell the story of V-Mail from the earliest photographic experiments that made it possible, to how it worked, and the great efforts applied, by the government and businesses, to getting people to use it.
As part of the presentation, the exhibition of World War II writing materials, put together by Richard Binder and David Watts, Jr. will be on display in the museum for the afternoon.
No reservations needed to attend.
