It was 75 years ago this September when Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery hatched one of World War II’s most daring operations, Operation Market Garden. At the time, the allies were desperate to find a way across the Rhine and into Germany’s Heartland. Three allied airborne divisions and one British Army Corps were given the task…
On July 9th, D-Day paratrooper Joe Morettini will visit the AMC Museum to reunite with the C-47 that carried him into combat in WWII. In April earlier this year, his fellow paratrooper Corporal George Shenkle of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment visited and spoke with enthralled visitors. Joe was not able to travel to Dover…
On Saturday, June 20th, members of the Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood will visit the museum and talk about their experiences on the campaigns against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, secretly based in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. The members of the TLC Brotherhood will provide briefings in the museum’s theater on the “Alpha Day Strike” from…
Update: Read the article, “Jumping into History,” about George Shenkle’s visit at the AMC Museum On 18 April, seventy years since VE Day (WW II Victory in Europe) Corporal George Shenkle of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment will be reunited with the C-47 he jumped out of on D-Day, June 6th 1944. The mission of…