World War 2 Museum

Last Wednesday, Pam and I took my parents to the World War 2 Victory museum in Auburn, Ind. I've been wanting to go there ever since the museum opened in 2003. It contains the world's largest collection of World War 2 vehicles--over 150 of them, a good share of them German vehicles.

Wow, what a place! I loved it. The WW2 movies tend to show the same vehicles--an assortment of tanks, trucks, jeeps, and motorcycles. But my goodness, the variety of vehicles from that period was incredible. Very interesting vehicles like I've never seen.

There were no Japanese vehicles. We were told that they were mostly destroyed during the war. So everything was from the European theatre.

The museum is across from the Kruse car auction lot, and is owned by Kruse. He bought the whole collection from a Belgian collector. The WW2 collection is housed in just one side of the mammoth museum building. The other side consisted mostly of the Car and Coach Museum. The cars were nice, but we all felt that the horse-drawn carriages, including some royal carriages and stagecoaches, were the stars of this collection. They also had three Batmobiles--two from movies, plus the TV show Batmobile. Plus Batgirl's cycle.

Wow, four days since I've posted. And I've been on vacation. Just shows how busy this vacation has been.

Posted on November 26, 2006 05:25 PM|

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