The suprising bounty that is The Kalamazoo Air zoo...

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Last one. These pictures cover only a portion of the collection. Since moving into their new facility a few years ago, the price of admission is somewhat high. If I remember correctly, it costs about $15.00. However, it's worth seeing at twice the price.

[Alan Smith]

Cool stuff, Denny. Thanks for the photos (especially the ones of the small arms). Looks like they have some pretty good stuff and, based on the labels, most of it is veteran and/or family donations.

[Gimpy117]

15.00 is okay....better than others

actually this month it's free (or something like that)
but they had some great displays I would recommend seeing it if your near Kalamazoo...

or you could come party at western with me!! ha ah just yanking your chains

[seebee1]

That B-25 is awesome! Thank you for sharing some great images Denny, regards, Clive.

[Ronnie Fry]

Gimpy and Denny,
Thank you both for some fine photos of really interesting stuff. I'm glad you posed it here, as I rarely visit the other forums....

Ronnie

P.S. Believe it or not, there is a really nice WWII museum where I live.... The "Silent Wings" museum... Prarie Dog Town used to be a glider school in WWII. They have a lot of stuff like Kalamazoo... But not so much the aviation... Except, of course, a glider....

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[Gimpy117]

I would love a running post of all the different museuem photos...it would be cool to bring all of those in one place to see...

[vitts]

M y daughter, son in law, 3 grandchilden, live in kal but I have never been to the airport museum. They have a nice military show at the fairgrunds and I have bought a lot of nice things there.

Either Battle creek or Marshall, Mi. ( about 10 mi. from Kal.) had one of the largest German POW camps in the US. A friends mother who grew up there told us about watching the prisoners arrive and they would march them down the street to the camp. I have never been there but was told that there is a large cemetary located there with a lot pow's buried in it.


frank v.

[Gimpy117]

street to the camp. I have never been there but was told that there is a large cemetary located there with a lot pow's buried in it.


frank v.

really? why so many? I thought our treatment was better than most in our pow camps...

[vitts]

Perhaps I have mispoken, when I say a lot . I have seen a picture of a German area in the cemetary with perhaps 50 graves in it. I will try to find it and put up here. frank v.

[vitts]

here is a link to the fort custer cemetary just east of Kalamazoo mi.

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/misc_l...er_wk2_usa.htm

[Douglas Jr.]

I liked! Thanks for sharing.

Douglas

[Gimpy117]

hmm any info on the collision? sounds like a good piece of history