Camp Hearne WWII Historic Site and Exhibit
PLAY TOUR AUDIO HOME TO FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS OF WAR During the Second World War, the United States established prisoner of war camps throughout the country including seventy camps in Texas, housing…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO HOME TO FIVE THOUSAND PRISONERS OF WAR During the Second World War, the United States established prisoner of war camps throughout the country including seventy camps in Texas, housing…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO Native of Waco, Doris "Dorie" Miller was a cook in the United States Navy noted for his bravery during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He…
Duty. Honor. Country. George H.W. Bush had already garnered an impressive list of titles before his election as the nation’s 41st President. Bush served as a U.S. Congressman, Ambassador to the United…
A living history museum dedicated to preserving the equipment, uniforms, and memories of all American servicemen and women. Home to one of the largest collections in the U.S. of restored, running WWI…
The City of Orange secured shipbuilding contracts with the US Navy following the attack of Pearl Harbor. Shipbuilding yards in Orange became one of the primary Naval production facilities in the continental…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO BOOM AND BUSTED One person's wildcatter may be another person's con-artist, a truism illustrated with entertaining delight by the story of the East Texas Oilfield discovery and Marion "Dad"…
REMEMBERING AND HONORING Huntsville’s H.E.A.R.T.S. Veterans Museum staff estimate we are losing a significant number of World War II veterans every single day. Therefore, the Museum was created for and about veterans…
Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site, a Texas Historical Commission property, is located where the Sabine River enters the Gulf of Mexico. The 58-acre site highlights the story of Confederate Lt. Richard…
In the short space of five months the 12th Armored Division became one of the most feared fighting machines of World War II. Labeled the "Hellcat Division," it was instrumental in capturing…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO In the early 1900s, cotton was king, and Brownwood was the major cotton-buying center west of Fort Worth. The economy burgeoned in the 1920s during an oil boom and…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO WOMEN IN AVIATION In early 1943, as World War II raged on, several different plans to utilize female aviators to help perform pilot duties (everything except combat) were consolidated…
When soldiers came to town for entertainment and to mingle with locals, they went to racially segregated United Service Organizations (USO) facilities. The USO for African Americans was in a calaboose that…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO Shocked by the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that propelled the United States into World War II, thousands of Japanese, German, and Italian citizens in the…
The Fort Sam Houston Museum chronicles post history from 1845 to the present. World War II displays examine key battles and show the development of the war’s successful “triangular division” infantry organizational…
The Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio opened its doors in 2000; an effort by San Antonio's Jewish community to provide public record of one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies and…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO After guiding Allied forces to victory over Japan, U.S. Navy Adm. Chester W. Nimitz was a party to signing the 1945 peace treaty that ended World War II. He…
Dedicated in 1930, Randolph Air Force Base quickly gained the moniker “West Point of the Air,” training thousands of cadets and instructors across almost a century of service. Towering over the Spanish…
Home of the Texas National Guard, Camp Mabry’s historic Building 6 houses the Texas Military Forces Museum. Through dioramas and displays of artifacts, aircraft, weapons and vehicles, the facility highlights Lone Star…
The 18-acre Texas State Cemetery in Austin is the final resting place of some of Texas’s most notable sons and daughters. Efforts to establish the cemetery began in 1851, with the death…
Zilker Botanical Garden — located on 30 acres in Austin, Texas has often been called “the jewel in the heart of Austin”. Herb and rose gardens are interconnected with streams, waterfalls and…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO The Battleship Texas is currently closed for a major repair project. The USS Texas holds the distinguished designation of a National Historic Landmark and a National Mechanical Engineering…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO Overlooking Galveston Bay, Fort Travis served as a heavily armed fortification for coastal artillery. Fort Travis was occupied by troops in both world wars, and a number of German…
The Galveston Naval Museum is home to the USS CAVALLA (WWII Submarine) and the USS STEWART (destroyer escort - one of only 3 in the world). Seawolf Park was built on an…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO To honor victims and survivors, the Holocaust Museum Houston uses original films, artifacts, photographs and interactive displays to examine the causes and lessons of the genocide. It also details…
This airfield didn’t end up here by coincidence - but through the intense lobbying of the Houston Chamber of Commerce to the federal government. In 1917, when the US entered the Great…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO AUDIE MURPHY/AMERICAN COTTON MUSEUM When Hunt County elected to create a museum featuring the region’s history, two subjects came to mind – Hunt County native and World War ll…
Nearly all of the Cavanaugh warbirds are restored and flyable, and some have flown in movies about World War II. Allied fighters include the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire. Also on view…
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum tells the story of the Holocaust, the emergence of international human rights following the war, and the development of human and civil rights in America…
This humble home is the birthplace of the 34th US President: Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower. Born in 1890 in a bedroom of this house, Eisenhower’s family moved to Kansas 18 months after his…
The Fort Worth Aviation Museum tells the story of the aviation heritage and accomplishments in North Texas since 1911. Its collection of 24 warbirds dates from 1943 to the present and features…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO During World War II thousands of British pilots learned to fly at six civilian training schools in the United States. The first and largest of the schools was in…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO This North Texas museum was the home of one of America’s most legendary politicians, Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (1882–1961). “Mr. Sam” served 48 years in the U.S. House of Representatives…
Wartime history is the collection and exhibit focus of the Texas Heritage Museum. This remarkable collection includes personal stories of native Texans at war, and how those experiences have influenced howwe live…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO [CLOSED FOR REDESIGN UNTIL SUMMER OF 2025] Fort Bliss can trace its history back to the Mexican-American War, when it was first garrisoned in 1846. In 1916, Fort Bliss…
A MISSION TO COMBAT INTOLERANCE The murder of millions of people in Europe during Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime from 1933 to 1945 wasn’t the only reason Holocaust survivor and El Paso resident…
Camp Marfa’s heat and isolation didn’t make it the most desirable Army post. The 35 desertions in 1923 attest to that! In the early 1900s, the Mexican Revolution erupted, and Americans feared…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO Journey through the history of the U.S. Border Patrol from the beginning in the Old West, through Prohibition, World War II, into the high-tech Patrol of today. The museum…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO In 1852, one of the state’s most historic military posts, Fort Clark, was established. Black Seminole Indians served here in the 1870s and 1880s. During both world wars, infantry…
Midland Army Air Field began as Sloan Field, a privately owned landing field and flying school in 1927. It was sold to the City of Midland in 1939 and promoted by a…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO MILLION BARREL MUSEUM When you hear of the Million Barrel Museum you might imagine a museum featuring a million barrels or perhaps a museum composed of a single giant…
Housed in a 1939 water pumping station built by the Public Works Administration, Pampa's Freedom Museum USA features a large collection of military memorabilia, featuring displays provided by the Army, Air Force…
Big Spring’s Hangar 25 Air Museum has a good deal of something for both military and architecture enthusiasts. This collection of memorabilia tells the story of the Big Spring Army Air Force…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO GLIDE ON: The Silent Wings Museum, situated in the Lubbock airport's converted former passenger terminal with panoramic views of active aircraft, tells the story of the U.S. Combat Glider…
During the war’s last year, Praha (population under 100) lost nine local men in combat, more than any other U.S. town its size. That sacrifice is memorialized at St. Mary’s Catholic Church…
Celebrating military aviation from the early 1900s to the present, the collection features more than 60 vintage aircraft, plus tanks, military vehicles and weaponry. World War II exhibits comprise artifacts from both…
PLAY TOUR AUDIO The Iwo Jima Monument stands as a powerful tribute to the heroic actions of six Marines on February 23, 1945, who raised an American flag atop Mount Suribachi during…
Dedicated “to Keeping our Warbirds Flying and Honoring Our Veterans,” the squadron museum strives to include WWII, Korean, and Vietnam-era airplanes on the local flight line and to collect and preserve artifacts…
Naval enthusiasts climb aboard a World War II aircraft carrier at the USS Lexington Museum on the Bay. Known as the "Blue Ghost" and “Lady Lex,” this ship served in nearly every…
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