Air Force Museum

 This past Friday we got to go to the National Air Force Museum.

We all piled into a church bus & away we went!

After we stopped at Tim Hortons, of course! :-)

 Here it is!  It had three HUGE hangars!

 Here's one hangar... Thought of you, Sam! :-)

 It takes you on a tour starting with the early years of flight.

 This document was SO interesting to read!

They had a lot of interesting things!

I thoroughly enjoyed myself! :-)

 I love their Michigan spirit! ;-)

 And another one! :-D

 This part was probably my favorite!

It was so sad and yet so intriguing!

So many interesting stories about people

who lived during the time of WWII.

Nazi "prison camp" outfit.

 The story behind this violin was so interesting

and yet so sad!  A young Jewish boy's apartment

was destroyed and his family taken, and in the

midst of this the German soldiers ordered him

to play German tunes from his balcony for those

below.  He recalls that he wept as he played the

happy German tunes!  So sad!

 This is the man when he is older with his violin.

 Here he is as a young boy.

 All the men who flew in the "Doolittle Raid" during WWII are

represented by a goblet.  Those who are still surviving have their goblets

still standing upright.  There were only five goblets upright.

 Here it's picturing a man still in his pjs on the morning

of December 7th when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

 Unbelievable!

 The plane that dropped the little boy and

the fat man on Japan, thus ending WWII!

 The Little Boy Atomic Bomb

 The Fat Man

 We got to go inside a crew plane.

Mom, I thought you'd appreciate this picture :-)

 Present Day Flight

 Space Flight

 Of course, we had to get a picture of THE Minuteman

by the Minuteman Shuttle! :-)

We thought it would be a neat picture to get one

in between these two space shuttles.  You can barely

see us, though!  These things are massive!

 It's incredible to me how many planes they had

at this museum!  I guess that's why it's the National

United States Air Force Museum! :-)

 

It was such a neat place to go, and we could've spent

many more hours there!  We didn't even go to one

of the Hangars, too!  I'd definitely suggest going

if you haven't gone.  It was very neat!