COLD WAR MUSEUM FOR THE MIDLANDS.WORK is to start on a museum in the Midlands dedicated solely to the Cold War. The Cold War and Transport Aircraft Museum, at RAF Cosford, near Wolverhampton, will house aircraft which played a key role in military operations This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently. World War I ''See also List of military engagements of World War I
Exhibitions will include the Berlin Air Lift, the descent of the Iron Curtain Iron Curtain Political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. , the Cuban Missile Crisis, surveillance techniques, missiles and the space race. It will also chart the rise in popular culture during the post-World War Two period. Construction on the pounds 13 million project - a joint initiative between the RAF and Bridgnorth District Council - is expected to start in the next few weeks. The museum - the first in Britain to be solely dedicated to the Cold War - is expected to be open for visitors by December 2006. RAF museum The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular. The museum is spread over two sites in England;
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