The Museum: Galleries
Day in the Life Gallery
Guests enter this gallery through an expanding matrix of life-cast Air Force personnel illustrating a Day in the Life at Travis AFB. Video wall technology on either side visually completes the picture while giving guests interactive opportunities. Guests will discover the personal stories and motivations of those that serve every day.
The men, women, and families of the United States Air Force are called upon to conduct every imaginable duty, making an Air Force Base a city into itself. A Day in the Life Gallery is dedicated to all those who make up this community
Humanitarian Missions Gallery
Visitors moving from the Hub to the Humanitarian Missions Gallery will first encounter the Berlin Airlift vignette. This functions as a gateway story to the role of Travis Air Force Base in global as well as domestic activities.
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The visitors will wind their way through the debris of war-torn Berlin, joining the masses awaiting aid as theplabes fly overhead. Directly above is the C-47 Skytrain, the first aircraft to fly in Operation Vittles. Tiny parachutes carrying Hershey Bars aew seen falling from the cockpit, dropped by pilot Gail Halvorsen - the man known for initiating the "Candy Bombers."
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Freedom is Not Free Gallery
This gallery chronicles conflicts from 1941 to the present, emphasizing the changing roles of Travis Air Force Base personnel. The centerpiece is a B-29 Superfortress, the aircraft that ushered in the Atomic Age and the last to be flown by General Travis in 1950 when his B-29 crashed at what would later be named Travis AFB.
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Key roles of Base personnel and aircraft are brought to life through vignettes such as a late evening medevac arrival from Vietnam where wounded soldiers are transferred to waiting vehicles destined for hospitals and trauma centers.