The American Overseas Schools Historical Society Museum and Archives opened to the public on Thursday, April 15, 2021 in Wichita, Kan. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

Memorabilia, like this letter jacket from an American school in Germany, were on display during the opening ceremony. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

1922 and 1941 yearbooks from an American school in Panama. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

Rick Terry of Shawnee, Okla., looks through a yearbook from the high school he attended in Stuttgart, Germany, in the 1970s. The book, and thousands more like them, are in the AOSHS archives and are being digitized. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

AOSHS Treasurer Ron Harrison rings a school bell from Kaiserslautern Elementary School marking the official opening of the museum. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

AOSHS membership/development head Joel Hansen looks at a photo of 2nd Lt. Emily Perez, a former student in American overseas schools. After attending West Point, Perez was killed in action on Sept. 12, 2006, while leading a convoy through Al Kifl, Iraq. She was the first female African-American officer in U.S. military history to die in combat. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

School pennants, from Germany to Turkey. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

Wrestling patches, and a girl’s-basketball trophy, from Japan. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

The green pushpins mark locations of current schools; the red pushpins mark locations of schools that have closed. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion

AOSHS board member and Legionnaire Frank Roehl looks at a mascot costume from the Heidelberg, Germany, high school he once served as superintendent of. Photo by Travis Heying/The American Legion