MUSEUMS & MEMORIALS
Below is a selection of interesting sites. Please visit The Maryland Office of Tourism for an extensive list of WWII attractions.
Baltimore Maritime Museum
Piers 3 & 5
Baltimore's Inner Harbor
802 South Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD 21231
410-396-3453
What you can see there:
USS Torsk - One of only ten Tench Class fleet type submarines to see service in World War II.
USCGC Taney - Known as “The Queen of the Pacific,” she is the last surviving warship afloat today from the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii.
Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Highway
410-727-4808
What you can see there:
A prototype of a WWII flying boat bomber made at the Martin Marietta plant in Middle River.
Calvert Marine Museum
The museum includes an exhibit about Solomons when the town was an amphibious landing training site during World War II. Each August, the site hosts “Solomons: Cradle of Invasion,” a World War II living history weekend.
14150 Solomons Island Road
Solomons, MD 20688
410-326-2042
College Park Aviation Museum
1985 Corporal Frank Scott Dr
College Park, MD 20740
(301) 864-6029
What you can see there:
1941 Boeing A75N1/PT-17 "Stearman"
Originally designed as trainers, the outbreak of WWII accelerated demand for these two-seat biplanes, which also served as barnstormers and crop dusters.
WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) Photo Exhibit
Fort George G. Meade Museum
4674 Griffin Avenue
Fort George G. Meade, MD
What you can see there:
M4A3(E8) Sherman "Easy Eight" Tank - The M4 Sherman tank was used during and after World War II (after October 1941). By VJ Day, almost fifty thousand M4 tanks had been built with numerous modifications during the war.
Also: Light Tank M3A1, graves of WWII German and Italian POWs
Maryland Aviation Museum
701 Wilson Point Rd
Baltimore, MD 21220
Hangar 5, Suite 531
410-682-6122
Project Liberty Ship
The primary mission of Project Liberty Ship is to preserve, maintain and operate the World War II Liberty ship S.S. JOHN W. BROWN to serve as an operating vessel and living museum in paying tribute to the shipbuilders who built the Liberty ships, the merchant seamen who sailed them, and the U.S. Naval Armed Guard who defended them.
U.S. Army Ordnance Museum
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen, MD
museum@ocs.apg.army.mil
410-278-3602
Museum is open to visitors using a "day pass". Please contact the museum for access information.
What you can see there: Displayed outside the museum there are numerous WWII tanks and artillery (mostly from foreign countries). Some are the only remaining examples of their kind. The museum building also has special displays, an extensive collection of small arms, a library and a small theater.
World War II Memorial
Dedicated May 27, 1990
Route 450 at Naval Academy Bridge
1920 Ritchie Highway
Annapolis, MD 21401
BOOKS
Answering Their Country's Call: Marylanders in World War II
By Michael H. Rogers
Published 2002
Johns Hopkins University Press
History / Military / War
400 pages
ISBN 0801871263
Baltimore in World War II
By William M. Armstrong
Published 2005
Arcadia Publishing
History / U.S.
128 pages
ISBN 0738541893