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The museum originated with single room at the Weapons Exhibit Center in 1955. The collection was expanded in 1963, but began to deteriorate ten years later due to the expansion of a lab. A man named Milt Burford began efforts to expand the collection again in 1989 and four years after that the China Lake Museum Foundation was established.
These institutions vary in their scope and focus, with some museums dedicated to a specific national or regional context and chronicling the military history of a particular country or region, while other museums may concentrate on a particular conflict, era, service, technology (like an artillery museum), or unit (like a regimental museum).
Cannonball House and Marine Museum: Delaware: Lewes: United States lightship Overfalls (LV-118) Delaware: Rehoboth Beach: Indian River Lifesaving Station Museum: Delaware: Wilmington: Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: Y District of Columbia: Washington, DC: National Museum of the United States Navy: Y District of Columbia: Washington, DC
The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States. The U.S. Navy Museum is one of ten official Navy museums, [1 ...
Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake [2] is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest [ 3 ] under Commander, Navy Installations Command , and was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station ( NOTS ).
152936 – United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, NCC China Lake (North), Ridgecrest, California. [citation needed] 154131 – Walker Field Colorado Park, Grand Junction, Colorado. [citation needed] 154162 – Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, California [51] 154167 – Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, NASM, Washington, D.C. [52]
When the United States gained independence in 1783, the seacoast defense fortifications were in poor condition. Concerned by the outbreak of war in Europe in 1793, the Congress created a combined unit of "Artillerists and Engineers" to design, build, and garrison forts in 1794, appointed a committee to study coast defense needs, and appropriated money to construct a number of fortifications ...
The Martin P5M Marlin (P-5 Marlin after 1962), built by the Glenn L. Martin Company of Middle River, Maryland, is a twin piston-engined flying boat that entered service in 1951, and served into the late 1960s with the United States Navy performing naval patrols. It also served with the United States Coast Guard and the French Navy. 285 were ...