Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made accessible to the public Museum. Volunteers will also be on hand to answer questions and provide the historical back drop for […]

KAL flight 007 was scheduled to fly from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On 1 September 1983 however, the Boeing 747 airliner serving the flight was blown out of the sky by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident, but later admitted shooting down the aircraft, […]

In the Vietnam War, SAR (Search and Rescue) became a big priority for the United States due to the vast scale of the war and an environment largely covered in thick jungle growth. The American military’s ability to perform effective Combat Search and Rescue missions was in the early days of the Vietnam War not […]

On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur watched the Sixth Army storm ashore on the Philippine island of Leyte. Meanwhile Admiral Soemu Toyoda, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, had deployed it into three separate naval forces to engage and crush the U.S. army and navy units mounting this invasion. This is the story of one […]

The members of the 332d Fighter Group and the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302d Fighter Squadrons during World War II are remembered in part because they were the only African American pilots who served in combat with the Army Air Forces during the war. They are more often called the Tuskegee Airmen since they trained […]

A timeline of the Red Tails providing a unique year-by-year overview of the fascinating story of the Tuskegee Airmen, embracing important events in the formation of the first military training for black pilots in United States history, the phases of their training at various air fields in Tuskegee and elsewhere, their continued training at other […]