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The mission of the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center is to acquire, preserve, and exhibit historically significant equipment, armaments and materiel that relate to the history of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps and to document and present the evolution and development of U.S. military ordnance material dating from the American Colonial Period to the present day.
The museum displays tanks, military vehicles, weapons, small arms, uniforms, medals, decorations and military equipment from World War I to the present day. The heart of the exhibition is a collection of about 40 Bundeswehr and former East German (Nationale Volksarmee) tanks as well as 40 German tanks and other Wehrmacht vehicles from the Second World War.
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
As a "heavy" division, the 3rd Armored commanded two armored regiments containing a total of four medium tank battalions and two light tank battalions (18 companies) instead of the usual three tank battalions containing both light and heavy tanks (12 companies). The division commanded 232 medium tanks, compared to the 168 allotted to a standard ...
The museum has the world's largest collection of armoured fighting vehicles and contains well over 880 vehicles, although The Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset has a larger number of tanks. Because of shortage of space, less than a quarter can be exhibited, despite the move to a much larger building in 1993.
History of New York and the United States New York City Fire Museum: SoHo: Manhattan: Firefighting: Historical and modern firefighting vehicles, equipment, uniforms New York Public Library Main Branch: Midtown Manhattan: Manhattan: Multiple: Books, drawings, illustrations, prints: Exhibitions about art, history, culture, photography from its ...
Surviving examples of the Borgward IV are displayed in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, [3] the Kubinka Tank Museum, [4] the American Heritage Museum in Greater Boston, USA, and the German Tank Museum in Munster. A fifth one in working condition is displayed in the Overlord Museum in Colleville-sur-Mer (Normandy-France).
The museum is located in Niagara Falls, New York on the site where Das Haus was originally built. Potter Charles August Mehwaldt [2] created his fired-clay decorative and functional items across the street from the campus. The Historical Society of North German Settlements in Western New York also hosts Plattdeutsche events for residents of the ...