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ITT: Military museums, battlefields, ships or fortifications open to visit.

If you're on the Gulf coast near New Orleans, you can go see the USS Alabama in Mobile, AL. It was pretty cool, seeing the heug size of that thing in person. (pic is from wiki, not me)

A bit further east in Pensacola, FL is the Museum of Naval Aviation, it had a great collection of planes, more than I'd seen at the Boeing museum in Seattle. More fighters than at a typical airshow, even.

What /k/-related places have you seen?
>> Anonymous
>>25743
I don't have pics, but I've been to D-Day beaches at Normandie. (also I forget which beach) But I saw the graves... good lord now that's something amazing. They're all perfectly lined up too.
>> Anonymous
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I've been to the SAC Museum in Omaha, was awesome, and is pretty much the only thing to see in Nebraska anyhow.
>> Anonymous
Museum of Flight in Seattle. Better than it sounds. One of my favorite places out here.
>> Anonymous
Melbfag here. I've been to Point Cook, which is an RAAF base and an aircraft museum. It was pretty meh, even though I'm normally into this military kind of stuff. Pretty overrated place.
Also been to Watsonia Barracks. It's an operating Army Reserves barracks, went there for Cadets weapons training.
>> Anonymous
>>25746

There is a museum of peace down there too. It has mostly war-related stuff, which was interesting.
>> Phil Ossiferz Stone !!+SIUpCcih6c
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Fort Chronkite in San Francisco. Go over the Golden Gate bridge away from the city, take the first right at the vista point, and keep going. You'll hit a one-lane tunnel and a series of old barracks, then you'll get up to the old 16" battery emplacements. There's picnic tables and a small parking lot, and you can go crawling all over/through these massive underground magazines. Stand on the edge of the cliff and look around and you can see EEEEEEVERYTHIIIIINGGG. Kinda windy, but still the greatest picnicking spot I know of.

By the way, I just discovered /travel today, at complete random. What a pleasant surprise to find another *relatively* mature, informative board (I generally haunt /k/ and /x/).
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Intrepid is superior
>> sage
Norfolk Naval Station is a definite.
>> Anonymous
>>25964
You're from the Bay Area and you didn't mention the USS Hornet in Alameda? It's an aircraft carrier.
NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK, BABY
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Pearl Harbor. It's pretty cool seeing the oil still leaking from the ship.
>> Anonymous
I enjoyed the Smithsonian.
>> Anonymous
The USS Massachusetts is a WWII-era battleship that's been converted into a floating museum in Fall River, MA. Shit is awesome. Also, the Pima Air Museum in Arizona is fuckwin. They have an SR-71 Blackbird there, ffs!
>> Anonymous
>>26001
More like pathetic that they havent cleaned it up yet. "We wana rember the day we got fucked in the ass from our own ignorance, so fuck the enviroment."
>> Anonymous
Ottawa's War Museam boasts Hitler's car, worth a few lulz.

They also have motherfucking panzers.
>> Phil Ossiferz Stone !!+SIUpCcih6c
>>26008
There is no easy, safe way to contain or siphon off the oil from the tanks of a ship armored like Fort Knox. Lack of concern for the environment doesn't enter into it -- it's impossible. There are 1177 slowly-distintegrating corpses inside we can't retrieve either, for the same reason. It's a mass graveyard,

Too, they didn't die because of anyone's ignorance. They were murdered in their sleep by a fascistic state that murdered 12,000,00 other human beings before we could stop them.

You're a total motherfucking retard all the way around.
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Technikmuseum Speyer/Sinsheim, if you ever happen to be in Germany. They have the Concorde, TU-144, a post-WW2 Diesel U-boat and really anything else you can think of. They even have the fucking Soviet space shuttle holy shit my dick is swinging in a circle!
http://www.technik-museum.de/
>> Anonymous
>>26544
It's always nice to see a genuine American retard so full of the shit he's fed with.
>> Anonymous
I live in Pensacola and I've been to that stupid Naval museum a half dozen times (usually because they host events there like history fairs for high school and eagle scout graduations and whatnot)

It's BORING. It's not that big (well, it's one big room filled with planes) with a few smaller rooms with random boring plane-related things to look at, but there's very little to look at, even if you're a military buff.

Yet sadly, it's still one of the most entertaining things to see in Pensacola. And if you're visiting new orleans--a three hour drive away--just stay in NO. There's more to do and better food.
>> Anonymous
>>26558
Its always nice to see a person resort to ad hominem arguements when he doesn't have the intellect to respond.
>> Phil Ossiferz Stone !!+SIUpCcih6c
>>26579

I'm sorry. I was in a bad mood this morning, and I shouldn't have introduced profanity into a reasonably sane thread on a reasonably sane board.

I still think
>>26008
was incredibly offensive and uncalled for. It's analagous to sneering at the allied graves at the Somme, or... something.

The Arizona is a graveyard. Respect it.
>> Anonymous
for military aircraft, the National museum of the air force in southwest Ohio, bar none. They have everything there - modern things like an F-22, B- 52, B-1, B-2, f-117, an A-10 with it's XBOX HEUG GAU-8 on display 2 SR-71's and a number of ICBMS, as well as numerous other planes.
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>>26638
You forgot the most epic plane of all...
>> Anonymous
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Baltimore has a lot. The USCG High Endurance Cutter Taney is the last surviving ship from the previously discussed Pearl Harbor attacks that's still afloat. Fort McHenry is where Marylanders shat on the British so hard that the story of it became our national anthem.
>> Anonymous
>>26637
>>26579
more butthurt americans crying, and making ironic remarks about their intellects when screaming retardation