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Any REALLY GOOD WWII Museums Near You?

zipperzap
Need some more ideas as I start traveling around the country. Been to some really good ones in the US and Canada but want to see more!

Where are your favorites?
[:D]
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  • dipits
    Patton at Ft. Knox Kentucky
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  • Henry0Reilly
    http://www.crawfordsville.org/ropkey.htm

    Not strictly WWII...
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  • zipperzap
    That wouldn't happen to be in NW IN, would it?
    [8D]
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  • fishkiller41
    WPB armoury is chock-full of "Cuban Missile crisis memorabelia"...

    Jeff
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  • Isurelkegns
    They have an excellent WW2 Museum in New Orleans,La.
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  • Mk 19
    If your going through Maryland you really need to stop by the Museum at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
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  • ljwrench
    quote:Originally posted by dipits
    Patton at Ft. Knox Kentucky


    Ditto- Excellent museum. They were talking about moving it to Ft. Benning when the Armor School moves there.
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  • bobski
    arlington.[;)]
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  • buschmaster
    I don't know how it compares to a bona fide museum, but there's a 'memorial' in downtown st. louis, it looks like a small museum to me. WWI and WWII? they have pictures, letters to read, uniforms, medals, gear, guns, machine guns, swords, I couldn't find a website for it.

    I think it's good, but I've never been to another one.
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  • Colt Super
    You've been to the Dayton-Wright Air Force Museum, haven't you ??

    A1
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  • zipperzap
    Uh, ashamedly .... no.

    That's one I want to see!
    [8D]
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  • HandgunHTR52
    USS Yorktown in Charleston, SC. It is at Patriots Point along with a diesel sub and a couple other targets (surface ships).
    Tuesdays are the best day to go as that is when Naval Nuclear Power Training Command takes the new students fresh out of boot over there, so a lot of the old-timers show up. Great stories, better company.
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  • moonshine
    If ever in oregon check this out
    http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_179.php

    this fort was active from the civil war to past ww 2
    you can evan go thru the old gun implacements.
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  • ripley16
    The Marine Corp Museum in Quantico, Virginia
    http://www.usmcmuseum.org/
    National WWII Memorial
    http://www.wwiimemorial.com/?page=pictures.asp&subpage=photos
    Arlington National Cemetary
    http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/

    All in the Washington D.C. area.
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  • Henry0Reilly
    quote:Originally posted by Henry0Reilly
    http://www.crawfordsville.org/ropkey.htm

    Not strictly WWII...



    quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
    That wouldn't happen to be in NW IN, would it?
    [8D]


    West Central Indiana. Not far from I-74 and SR 32.
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  • p3skyking
    Yeah, got the D-Day museum 2 hours away in NO and the Museum of Naval Aviation about 45 minutes in P'cola. My shop is a museum too.
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  • Dean Cascio
    Have you been to this one.http://members.aol.com/tankland/museum.htm its just up the 5 from you.
    Dean
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  • Buffler
    The D Day Memorial is near Bedford,Va. Check it out if you can.
    BE SAFE!! Buffler
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  • Joe Drees
    USS Cobia, Manitowoc, Wi. Tour a WW2 Submarine. Pretty neat !
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  • p3skyking
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    Yeah, got the D-Day museum 2 hours away in NO and the Museum of Naval Aviation about 45 minutes in P'cola. My shop is a museum too.


    Duh, Forgot Battleship Park in Mobile Bay. USS ALABAMA (battleship), USS DRUM (Gato class sub). Lots of aircraft and armor on display.
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  • iceracerx
    BATTLESHIP COVE Fall River, Mass - home of the USS Massachusetts, PT Boat Museum, Sub, etc, etc

    SAC Museum Omaha, Neb

    WRIGHT - PATTERSON Museum - Dayton, oHIo

    Maginot Line FRANCE

    quote:To comprehend the magnitude of the Maginot Line, a visit to Alsace and Lorraine to see the fortifications and the terrain is important
    (If you have the time, a visit to the Riviera in the Maritime Alps north of Nice is well worth it).

    Fortunately, 99% of the Maginot Line still exists in northern Alsace and Lorraine. Several fortified works (known in French as "Ouvrages" - fortresses, forts, casemates, and bunkers) are open to the public as museums, while the rest of the Line lies abandoned in the countryside. In the Thionville sector, many of the large works have been sealed up and buried by the Army with mounds of dirt - Metrich, Soetrich, Mont des Welches, Billig, etc.
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  • sammashga
    Infantry museum at Ft. Benning Ga., Air Force museum at Warner Robins Ga., POW museum at Andersonville Ga. Ga. Veterans Park at Cordele Ga. Not strickly WW2 but really nice. Also Battery Row in Charleston SC.
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  • zipperzap
    POW museum at Andersonville Ga.

    Would really like to see that one - much to see there? Have they reconstructed any of the
    'wall'? Seems I remember seeing something about that a ways back, somewhere.
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