Fighting Falcon Military Museum

Displayed in the oldest existing school building in Greenville, visitors will fi nd the showpiece of the museum: a restored CG-4A glider replica of “The Fighting Falcon,” which is one of the most famous aircraft of World War II. Purchased with War Bond Dollars raised by the Greenville Senior High School Class of 1943, and built in the Gibson Electric Refrigerator Company of Greenville, “The Fighting Falcon” was specially honored with a full military dedication ceremony at Black Athletic Field before she became the LEAD glider of Operation Chicago - the airborne landings behind enemy lines in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. Come “Fly” our Fighting Falcon flight simulator! The museum also features collections of memorabilia from local veterans of America’s wars from 1860 to the present. Many of the items tell incredible stories of local men in famous events, like the capture of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Norman Edsall, the first U.S. Navy enlisted man to have a ship named after him; a survivor of the loss of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS; the pilot of BOCK’s CAR, the plane that took the pictures of the first atomic bomb dropped, and which dropped the second.

Open Sundays, 2 – 4pm, April through November.

516 W Cass Street, Greenville, MI 48838Phone: 616.225.1940

https://www.thefightingfalcon.com/
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