As 2022 comes to a close, we are excited to present our 2022 Annual Magazine for your reading pleasure - full of news from the past year on the activities of the Collings Foundation and the American Heritage Museum. Please read it online at the link below!
2022 American Heritage Museum / Collings Foundation Annual Magazine
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Just a reminder, Friday, December 16th is the last day to order any items from our online gift shop to make it to you before December 25th! Shop our online store today!
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Last order day to get items by Christmas is December 16th. Wonderful variety of gifts and items for your aviation and history enthusiast. Proceeds go to the American Heritage Museum and Collings Found...
Major progress taking place on the Hanoi Hilton POW Experience Exhibit at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA (a program of the Collings Foundation). Some of the significant design elements have been installed and the plaster treatment and aging of the original reconstructed cells has been completed, resulting in a very somber and humbling appearance when considering the isolation and torture of the POWs who were kept there for years. We look forward to opening this important exhibit in February to honor our veterans and POWs of the Vietnam War. See more photos and learn more at
Filling in the details… — The Hanoi Hilton POW Exhibit at the American Heritage Museum
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The scenic treatments to transform the Hanoi Hilton Exhibit and the original cells into what it looked like in the late 1960’s is quickly taking shape. Read more about it in this story...
We are more than HALF-WAY to our $15,000 Goal for Giving Tuesday to unlock our donor match challenge! Give online, by phone, or by mail today and help us continue our growth by supporting educational programs, new exhibits like the Vietnam POW exhibit, artifact restorations like the B-17, M36 Jackson, and new WWII Japanese Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu (Rex)! Donate today at www.collingsfoundation.org/giving/annual-fund/
The nation and the entire Warbird community is stunned and saddened by the shocking loss of two iconic World War II aircraft owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF). We join in mourning the CAF crew lost in this tragic accident and offer our heartfelt prayers during this extremely difficult time.
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AHM Speaker Series: Clarence Smoyer “Spearhead” with Author Adam Makos
December 2, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$10 – $20
In his new book, “Spearhead: The World War II Odyssey of an American Tank Gunner“, Adam Makos (the New York Times bestselling author of “A Higher Call”) chronicles the trek of American tank gunner Clarence Smoyer, driving with his compatriots in the 3rd Armored Division into the heart of Germany.
Please join Clarence Smoyer with Adam Makos for an afternoon lecture and discussion at the new American Heritage Museum on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 starting at 12:00 PM for a personal discussion of his personal experiences in the 3rd Armored Division in the closing days of World War II. Admission to the lecture and the American Heritage Museum is $20 Adults, $18 for Seniors & Veterans, and $10 for Children Under 12. The AHM will be open from 10am to 5pm that day.
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ABOUT SPEARHEAD
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel—and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
When Clarence Smoyer is assigned to the gunner’s seat of his Sherman tank, his crewmates discover that the gentle giant from Pennsylvania has a hidden talent: He’s a natural-born shooter.
At first, Clarence and his fellow crews in the legendary 3rd Armored Division—“Spearhead”—thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: The lead tank always gets hit.
After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art “super tank,” one of twenty in the European theater.
But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: Now they will spearhead every attack. That’s how Clarence, the corporal from coal country, finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the “Fortress City” of Germany.
Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans.
As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are taken by surprise by a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time.
