Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City is the only state-operated museum dedicated to military history. A massive ...

The 45th Infantry Museum in Oklahoma City is celebrating its 30th birthday today, and Edmond resident Bill Stearns looks back at every one of those 30 years with pride and fondness. Stearns actively ...

MEXICO, N.Y. – The village of Mexico said happy 100th birthday on May 27, 2023 to Laurence “Sparky” Rector, a World War II veteran who fought with the Oklahoma National Guard’s 45th Infantry Division.

On this Memorial Day, the 45th Infantry Division Museum hosted its annual remembrance ceremony and announced plans for a new National Guard Museum. State military leaders have dubbed the area of ...

A typo in Gonzales’ name was corrected. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) -The 45th Infantry Museum takes visitors from the Oklahoma’s first recorded, military exercise, which was Coronado’s expedition in 1540, ...

This Memorial Day, the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City is working to keep military history alive, despite a year of great loss. “Within the last two years, year and a half, we’ve taken ...

During World War II, the U.S. Army’s 45th Infantry Division, one of the most racially integrated units of the era, went into battle wearing on their shoulders the image of the Thunderbird, a ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A World War II veteran received a distinguished honor for his service in Oklahoma’s 45th Infantry Division. Lt. Col. Oren L. Peters received the Oklahoma Thunderbird Medal, the ...

DACHAU, Germany — Eighty years to the day after the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of the 45th “Thunderbird” Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh ...

In May 1943, on the eve of their embarkation for overseas duty. 1,500 members of the 45th Infantry Division, all American Indians, staged a war dance. Last week, when the 45th returned to the U.S.

A massive former armory, studded with reddish brick and sandstone and standing at 2145 NE 36 in Oklahoma City, has housed the 45th Infantry Division Museum for nearly 45 years. Oklahoma's largest ...