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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 1:58:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for all the recommendations.
I was on USS Constitution, at Battleship Cove, on USS Intrepid and today on USS New Jersey...

I am having a really great time, thank you for helping me finding the right choices. 20 more days to go and lot more museums to see... :)

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 1:07:10 PM   
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US Air Force Museum at Dayton, Ohio
I think the largest WWII aircraft display



+1000 bombs every other museum I have been to into rubble. You could easily spend 2 or more days there. And...its free. Don't forget to go to the aux museum also. Been a while since I did that tour, but it was where they were restoring planes and had some pretty unique stuff back there.

Can anyone who has been to that one, name another one that is better? I would like to visit it if there is actually one out there.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 2:25:12 PM   
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US Air Force Museum at Dayton, Ohio
I think the largest WWII aircraft display



+1000 bombs every other museum I have been to into rubble. You could easily spend 2 or more days there. And...its free. Don't forget to go to the aux museum also. Been a while since I did that tour, but it was where they were restoring planes and had some pretty unique stuff back there.

Can anyone who has been to that one, name another one that is better? I would like to visit it if there is actually one out there.


This is what I've heard as well, but I have not yet had the privilege of visiting. Historiker, this could be your best option for adding a day.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 4:19:05 PM   
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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 4:44:55 PM   
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The Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. It's right outside Baltimore.
http://www.goordnance.apg.army.mil/sitefiles/OrdnanceMuseum.htm

I've been to this one. Very nice for LCU types.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 6:13:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		If your visiting the East Coast, i'd say Aberdeen is a must. If your in the Boston area, go see the Big Maime. They also have a good PT boat restoration project going and their very own ex_East German missile boat.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 7:14:52 PM   
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Thanks for all the recommendations.
I was on USS Constitution, at Battleship Cove, on USS Intrepid and today on USS New Jersey...

I am having a really great time, thank you for helping me finding the right choices. 20 more days to go and lot more museums to see... :)


Hey, if you're still in Philadelphia I can give you a number of good restaurant suggestions as well. I can look across the river and see the New Jersey from my place lol

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/20/2010 7:17:01 PM   
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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/21/2010 12:12:40 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Thanks for all the recommendations.
I was on USS Constitution, at Battleship Cove, on USS Intrepid and today on USS New Jersey...

I am having a really great time, thank you for helping me finding the right choices. 20 more days to go and lot more museums to see... :)


Hey, if you're still in Philadelphia I can give you a number of good restaurant suggestions as well. I can look across the river and see the New Jersey from my place lol

Too late. I was on USS New Jersey yesterday, and on USS Olympia, today. Today was a total disappointment. 17$ for parking, another 18$ for the Museum - which was for kids to explain why a ship floats...

The USS Olympia isn't that interesting, except for being my first pre-dreadnought.
I've just checked in in my hotel in Dover. I turned to last-minute hotels on expedia. On expedia.com, they don't tell the name of the hotel - but on expedia.de, they do ;-)
The last two days, I was in a very nice hotel for just 70$/night including breakfast.

Anyway, time for some land- and air warfare. Had 2 BBs, 1 CV, 2 DDs, 3 SSs, 2 PTs, one ex DDR-Missile Boat and a 200 year old frigate, so far.

Time for the other branches of military :)

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/22/2010 1:18:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		At the Air Mobility Command Museum, one of the employees added three interesting hotels to my list:

Werner Robins Museum
Polk City Fantasy of Flight
Pensacola USN Museum

It's getting hard to count, how many museums and ships I will have seen, then. Defenitly more, than many countrys posess at all

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/22/2010 1:38:14 PM   
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NAtional WWII Museum, New Orleans, LA http://www.ddaymuseum.org/

8th Air Force Museum, GA http://www.mightyeighth.org/

All three benefit from a tight focus. I'm sick of random coolections of history.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/22/2010 1:42:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Historiker

Thanks for all the recommendations.
I was on USS Constitution, at Battleship Cove, on USS Intrepid and today on USS New Jersey...

I am having a really great time, thank you for helping me finding the right choices. 20 more days to go and lot more museums to see... :)


Hey, if you're still in Philadelphia I can give you a number of good restaurant suggestions as well. I can look across the river and see the New Jersey from my place lol

Too late. I was on USS New Jersey yesterday, and on USS Olympia, today. Today was a total disappointment. 17$ for parking, another 18$ for the Museum - which was for kids to explain why a ship floats...

The USS Olympia isn't that interesting, except for being my first pre-dreadnought.
I've just checked in in my hotel in Dover. I turned to last-minute hotels on expedia. On expedia.com, they don't tell the name of the hotel - but on expedia.de, they do ;-)
The last two days, I was in a very nice hotel for just 70$/night including breakfast.

Anyway, time for some land- and air warfare. Had 2 BBs, 1 CV, 2 DDs, 3 SSs, 2 PTs, one ex DDR-Missile Boat and a 200 year old frigate, so far.

Time for the other branches of military :)



I've been to both the USS New Jersey and on USS Olympia--Philly is a favorite trip for my wife and I.

I enjoyed the USS Olympia a lot more, but then I am also a fan of the Victorian age. However, this year we went to the NJ Beerfest on the USS New Jersey, yum http://www.njbeer.org/

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/22/2010 2:02:51 PM   
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At the Air Mobility Command Museum, one of the employees added three interesting hotels to my list:

Werner Robins Museum
Polk City Fantasy of Flight
Pensacola USN Museum

It's getting hard to count, how many museums and ships I will have seen, then. Defenitly more, than many countrys posess at all


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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/24/2010 6:26:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Virginia Beach Fighter Factory. 90% of there show room are flyable models and they have some RARE russian birds too. Gorgeous Corsair...

http://www.fighterfactory.com/airport/index.php

While you are in Virginia Beach...
Here is a link to the NAS Oceana (East Coast Master Jet base that operates 1/2 the USNs fleet of Hornets) tour from 2009. NOt sure if they are doing this right now, but as a Stash Ensign I was the tour guide back in the 90s for these. They are run by the City of Virginia Beach and are on City buses that tour the Base, including the flight line while air ops are ongoing. Ends at the O'Club for a nice lunch and Air Park/museum tour. Look into it. Really worth it if the dates are the same this year.

http://www.hrana.org/documents/2009NASOCEANABASETOURS.pdf

BEFORE you get to Virginia Beach stop at the Virginia War Museum. It is small but very well maintained and has some cool rare exhibits...
http://www.warmuseum.org/


I saw you had a pin in South Texas, might that be the Lexingtion? Let me know if you make it that far south, that is where I live....

http://www.usslexington.com/

I have to concur with anyone who said Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum...first rate all the way, and free less any donation you choose to make. They even have a library full of rare out of print books, very cool. Some were donated by actual aviators form teh period, I found one with personal notes in it...

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/24/2010 2:27:31 PM   
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Welcome to the new world, Historiker.

See you shortly!! You do need to get to Charleston, SC though. Really. Not just for Sumter, Moultrie and the Yorktown, but just to see the Battery and the old south.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/24/2010 7:32:59 PM   
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Welcome to the new world, Historiker.

See you shortly!! You do need to get to Charleston, SC though. Really. Not just for Sumter, Moultrie and the Yorktown, but just to see the Battery and the old south.


And eat some shrimp and grits at Hyman's Seafood Restaurant! My wife and I eat there at least twice every time we visit Charleston.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/25/2010 1:35:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hyman's were all the tourists go so be prepared to stand in line, which could be a chore with the heat we have been having. If you go over to see the Yorktown, go to Reds Ice House. It is where the locals eat, good beer and seafood. Its located on Shem creek and you may get to see a few shrimp boats come in.

On the Yorktown make sure you follow the self guided tours. On a couple of them they have rooms of WWII scale models. I posted some pictures a few months back.

Enjoy!
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Welcome to the new world, Historiker.

See you shortly!! You do need to get to Charleston, SC though. Really. Not just for Sumter, Moultrie and the Yorktown, but just to see the Battery and the old south.


And eat some shrimp and grits at Hyman's Seafood Restaurant! My wife and I eat there at least twice every time we visit Charleston.



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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/25/2010 11:29:51 PM   
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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/25/2010 11:36:39 PM   
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BTW: I saw the beautiful Do 335 today. What an amazing plane...

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/26/2010 2:14:03 AM   
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I'm going to be 4 weeks in the states and want to visit some museums. Can anyone recommend military museums in the US?


Please take a break from the museums and visit a state or county fair, as per this thread: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2556231

Just a friendly suggestion for getting a taste of the States, and maybe some heartburn from our cuisine.

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/26/2010 2:16:41 AM   
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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/26/2010 2:57:33 AM   
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what is a county fair?


Counties are government entities between the states and cities and towns. County fairs are smaller examples of what is discussed in the thread I linked to. What isn't discussed there is all of the gut churning carny rides that help you process the food.

Just google county or state fairs for the state you will be in, like South Carolina county fairs turns up this link: http://www.scfairs.org/dates.html

Anyway, it's nice to read that you are enjoying your visit. Next time come to visit the wide open spaces west of the Mississippi. As Willa Cather wrote: "Not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made."

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/28/2010 9:01:24 PM   
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what is a county fair?


Kirmes, Kerb, Jahrmarkt....

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/28/2010 11:40:32 PM   
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I was at Dayton USAF Museum, today...

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/29/2010 5:13:45 AM   
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At the Air Mobility Command Museum, one of the employees added three interesting hotels to my list:

Werner Robins Museum
Polk City Fantasy of Flight
Pensacola USN Museum

It's getting hard to count, how many museums and ships I will have seen, then. Defenitly more, than many countrys posess at all


Going to chime in again....

Pensacola Naval Air Museum (not as big as the USAF at Wright-Patt) but a MUST see that you will never regret! I suggest staying a the Crown Plaza in P'cola as it has a bar that is chock full with pics from modern day Blue Angles, USMC major personalities, Presidents, etc. It is built into an old train station hub.

And if you will be in P'cola, go to the beach which are the most beautiful in the world in my opinion, but then you are only 45 minutes away from the USS ALABAMA in Mobile Alabama. Also a must see that you won't regret the time spent there and wish you had more time! While you are there, ask for directions to the Original Oyster House nearby as you will be able to sample some of the best Gulf seafood ever!!!!!

Wish I could join you!

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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/29/2010 8:12:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		OR - if you are planning to spend the night in Mobile, I would suggest the Battle House Hotel if you have the extra cash to throw around. From the Battle House hotel, you can see the USS Independence being fitted up if it hasn't already been commisoned yet and it is very close to the USS Alabama.








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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/29/2010 8:13:19 AM   
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OR - if you are planning to spend the night in Mobile, I would suggest the Battle House Hotel if you have the extra cash to throw around. From the Battle House hotel, you can see the USS Independence being fitted up if it hasn't already been commisoned yet and it is very close to the USS Alabama.







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RE: Museum recomendations? - 8/29/2010 8:19:23 AM   
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