Fukuoka Prison Camp #17 Entrance with Clandestine American Flag The New Mexico Military Museum is proud to present “Flags of Freedom:   Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Our Bataan Prisoners of War.” Opening Reception: January 30, 2025, at 5 P.M. Featuring an exhibition discussion by Author Hampton Sides and Museum Director Laureta Huit. The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of our Bataan Veterans. We will honor their freedom by commemor

Collaborative Exhibition Coming Spring 2025 The Consortium of Indio-Pacific Researchers and the New Mexico Military Museum are teaming up to tell the story of the 1st Provisional Air Corps Regiment (PACR). The 27th Bombardment Group, a subsidiary to the Far East Air Force were initially equipped with A-24 Banshee aircraft; the group was deployed to the Philippines in late 1941. However, upon arrival, their aircraft were diverted elsewhere, leaving the group without planes w

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, remains one of the most significant and brutal engagements of World War II. Fought from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945, in the dense forests of the Ardennes in Belgium and Luxembourg, it marked Nazi Germany's last-ditch attempt to slow the Allied advance toward the heart of the Third Reich. The battle pitted the German Army's desperate offensive against a combined force of American, British, and other Alli