National Vietnam Veterans Museum
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| Established | 1996 |
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| Location | 25 Veterans Drive, Newhaven, Victoria, Australia |
| Type | Veterans Museum |
| Website | https://www.vietnamvetsmuseum.org/ |
The National Vietnam Veterans Museum is an Australian war museum located in Phillip Island, Victoria. Originally it was established in San Remo, Victoria in 1996 by Vietnam veteran John Methven.[1] In March 2007 it moved to a larger site near the Phillip Island Airport. The museum contains a large collection of items and vehicles, including a Centurion tank, a Mark V International Harvester truck and a 105mm pack howitzer. It also has a collection of aircraft from the era of the Vietnam war, including a de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou transport plane, an English Electric Canberra bomber, a Westland Wessex helicopter, a Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunship, Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, a Bell H-13 Sioux helicopter and a Grumman S-2 Tracker anti-submarine warfare aircraft.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ National Vietnam Veterans Museum Retrieved September 21, 2016
- ^ National Vietnam Veterans Museum - Aircraft restoration Retrieved September 20, 2016