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Airborne & Special Operations Museum
Airborne & Special Operations Museum is a museum in Fayetteville, NC, part of the North Carolina Piedmont guide. Cost: free.
100 Bragg Blvd · Fayetteville, NC
Why you should go…
Owned by the U.S. Army, this museum opened in downtown Fayetteville in August 2000 and tells the story of airborne and special operations soldiers from the paratroopers of 1940 onward. Its Task Force Ranger exhibit on the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu shows wreckage of Super 6-1, the first Black Hawk shot down in the battle. You can also see a Sheridan tank that fought in Panama in 1989 and step inside an Afghan hut that tells the story of Green Berets in 2001.
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