USS Massachusetts Living History Group

11/10/2025

Happy 250th Birthday to the US Marine Corps!

10/13/2025

Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy from the USS Massachusetts WWII Living History Group

02/15/2025

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12/26/2024

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-navy-ship-menus-christmases-180016577.html

The ship: The Indiana class battleship was commissioned in 1898 and found adventure on the high seas before being decommissioned in 1920. “Oregon made a dramatic voyage during the Spanish-American war, weathering storms, while encountering harsh gales while passing through the Straits of Magellan,...

10/25/2024

Today marks 80 years since the Battle off Samar, a desperate surface battle during the Leyte Gulf operation in which a handful of US destroyers and Naval aviators fought back a much larger Japanese force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers. Many US sailors lost their lives fighting to the last in an effort to protect the carriers of Taffy 3. We salute them

Battle off Samar: October 25, 1944 Despite its losses in the Sibuyan Sea, the Japanese Center Force steamed to counter the U.S. Allied forces during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In the early morning of October 25, 1944, four Japanese battleships, eight cruisers, and eleven destroyers surprised the Alli...

10/13/2024

Happy 249th birthday to the US Navy!
The 250th is just around the corner

The Naval Academy celebrated the U.S. Navy’s 249th birthday with a cake cutting ceremony in King Hall during the noon meal Friday.

06/29/2024

Two weeks to the WWII Pacific Theater event!
Get tickets online at: https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/event/wwii-pacific-re-enactment-saipan-campaign/

06/25/2024

WWII Pacific Theater event at American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA. The USS Massachusetts crew will be there with camps representing some of the many branches of the Navy that served in the Pacific. From Navy Nurses, to Seabees, Underwater Demolition Teams, Joint Assault Signal Companies, fleet Reserve and logistics, and more. Tickets available online:
https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/event/wwii-pacific-re-enactment-saipan-campaign/

05/26/2024

https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-sailor-world-war-ii-submarine-uss-harder-legacy/60901380

The submarine wreckage was found after nearly 80 years of being lost at sea, leading to some closure for the family of Ralph Erskine Manning

04/24/2024

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/veterans-navy-honor-crew-torpedoed-off-maine-during-world-war-ii/97-5d39eebf-2c5d-4b1e-939b-41c75ffbb32c

Forty-nine members of the crew of the USS Eagle died in a U-boat attack on April 23, 1945.

03/07/2024

Women in the Military living history event at Battleship Cove. March 23, 9:00-5:00.