Evansville Wartime Museum

Evansville Wartime Museum
Today we will visit the Evansville Wartime Museum.
From the Book
Southwest Indiana Day Trips

Greetings, today we will visit the Evansville Wartime Museum.

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The 30000 square foot Evansville Wartime Museum is located on the northeast region of Evansville Indiana in the Evansville Regional Airport. The collection contains almost 13,000 artifacts.

Organized in 2013 as the Freedom Heritage Museum, the museum opened in May 27, 2017, as the Evansville Wartime Museum. Evansville played a prominent role in World War II. During the war workers from the Republic Aviation manufactured the P-47 Thunderbolt and a shipyard on the Ohio River built the LSTs (Landing Ship, Tanks). The Evansville Wartime Museum acquired a P-47 Thunderbolt in 2020 from the Lone Star Flight Museum. Restorers repainted the aircraft in a paint scheme that mimicked the style of the P-47 manufactured in Evansville. The local Chrysler plant manufactured ammunition for the war effort.

The museum maintains displays that chronicle Evansville’s contributions to World War II, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. Documents and photographs in the museum relate many stories of men that served in time of war.

Visitors to the museum will also find a Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) on display. These boats held up to 20 men, or a military vehicle, for landing on beaches during amphibious landings. These ships played a key role, along with Evansville produced LSTs at Normandy Beach and other amphibious landing sites. For more on the LST see my previous video on this craft on my Indiana Places and History You Tube Channel.

Other displays include a radio station, automobiles in use at the time, military uniforms, a biplane and weaponry. An impressive assortment of the machinery used to manufacture weaponry is also on display.

Those that want to experience flight can use one of the three flight simulators in the museum. At scheduled times visitors can also ride inside a WWII tank.

Evansville Wartime Museum
7503 Petersburg Road
Evansville, IN 47725
(812) 424-7461

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