Revised NC-4 Exhibit Opens

The month of May brought the eighty-ninth anniversary of the transatlantic flight of the NC-4 flying boat and it was a perfect opportunity for the museum to roll out a new and improved exhibit devoted to the historic aircraft...[more]

 

 

Tale of the MF-Boat

Pilots who flew the MF-Boat likened its appearance to "a wooden shoe," the museum's example of the World War I era flying boat having quite a story behind it...[more]

 

 

Museum's SP-2H Keeps an Eye on the Soviets

The museum's SP-2H Neptune carries out a Cold War mission and helps earn a special award for her Naval Air Reserve crew...[more]

 

 

December

In the days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the defenders of Wake Atoll capture the public's attention with their determined resistance...[more]

 

 

Turn the Pages of Time

With each turn of a page, a scrapbook captures a distinct moment in time, a telling image that is worth a thousand words or either a document or mere clipping of paper that illuminates an individual's past.  In the Museum's electronic scrapbook, view images of the wartime service of Patrol Squadron (VP) 11 in the South Pacific and examine photographs of Marine Bombing Squadron (VMB) 611's service in the Philippines during Wold War II. 

 

 

A survivor of the sinking of the aircraft carrier Wasp (CV 7), pictured here, saves the life preserver that helped deliver him to safety on the fateful day of 15 September 1942... [more]