Airmen Memorial Museum - Suitland-Silver Hill - Maryland

Address:	5211 Auth Rd, Suitland-Silver Hill, MD 20746	Back to Maryland
Postal address:		Updated Version
City:	Suitland-Silver Hill
Zip code:	20746
State:	Maryland
Country:	United States of America
Web site:	www.hqafsa.org/AM/Template.cfm? Section=Airmen_Memorial_Museum& Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&Content ID=12037
Contact:
Phone:	+1 301 899 8386
Fax:
Opening hours:	Monday - Friday: 08:00 - 17:00


Admission:
Gift shop:
How to get there:	Located in Suitland, Maryland, one mile from Andrews Air Force Base. Visitors may take the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495), exit 7B and turn right onto Auth Road.

Collection:

Artifacts

Eddie Ward’s pilot’s license and identification tag
Fabric portions of American and German planes from WW I
John Richter’s Distinguished Flying Cross
Ulysses Nero’s 1923 Parachute Jump trophy, the flag that adorned his coffin at his funeral at ArlingtonNational Cemetery in 1980
An enlisted airman’s canteen that was carried on the infamous Bataan Death March
An airman’s World War II Blood Chit and silk escape map
WW II sketches drawn by enlisted artist Nathan Glick
A Norden bombsight
The Orderly Room Duty Roster
A Japanese officer’s sword and flying helmet (traded for by an enlisted airman)
An A-2 flight jacket
An enlisted man’s letter written from Hitler’s Headquarters on Hitler’s personal stationary
The personal effects of four airmen who flew on the historic Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb missions
WW II color photography and aviation art of former enlisted airman, William S. Phillips
The uniforms of CMSAF #2 Donald Harlow and CMSAF #4 Thomas Barnes.

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