| The museum offically opened in the summer of 2004. Since then it has grown in every way with new exhibited items, more volunteers, physical size with the construction of a new addition, and most importantly visitors. With an estimated annual visitor rate of 6,000 people, the museum has been hailed as the "biggest little military museum in the country" by the mayor of New Bedford, Scott Lang. |
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In 2009 construction began on a 1,800 square-foot addition to the museum, made possible by a donation from the Bank of America. This addition will more than double the available area to display donated artifacts from the Revolutionary thru the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. |
| Some of these fascinating exhibits are a statue made by a German POW who was being held at Camp Edwards on Cape Cod, Samurai swords from WWII, artifacts recovered from area waters, and photos and biographies of every local serviceman who was killed in Vietnam. |
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