The New Mexico Military Museum is pleased to announce multiple internship openings for Winter/Spring 2026. These internships offer hands-on experience in museum operations, collections care, exhibition installation, and oral history documentation. One (1) Oral History/Audio Visual Intern . Oral History/Audio Visual Intern will work with the Museum Director and Collections Manager in capturing the oral histories of New Mexican Veterans, descendants, and surviving families of

Figure 1: Airmen of the 27th Bomb Group, Far East Air Forces (FEAF) on the Philippines – 1941 During the first six months of World War II, the United States and our Filipino Allies fought with their backs to the wall against the might of Imperial Japan. Immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, across the international date line on December 8 th , 1941, another offensive began on the U.S. Commonwealth of the Philippines. For decades, the Americans planned f