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Museum Opens
May 21, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
The Wurtsmith Air Museum is officially open for the season!
The Wurtsmith Air Museum has thousands of items on
display, waiting for you to learn about. Here are just a few:
- WWI Uniform with its history documented
- Local WWI pilot’s flight manual & dog tags
- Norden Bomb Sight
- Submarine models & history
- Tuskegee Airmen Training in Oscoda
- The movie “Fighter Squadron” was filmed on base
- Letters & artifacts from the Korean War
- Coast Guard & Merchant Marine articles
- Viet Nam uniforms, medals, patches and a local 4-Star General display
- Women in the Military
- Information about the KC-135 crash at Wurtsmith in 1988
- Kalitta Air history
- Ric Mixter “Bombs Away” DVD including his flight on the
- “Old Crow Express”, the last B-52 to leave WAFB
- An expanded Wurtsmith Room full of historical information/pictures/articles and more
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