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The museum is privately owned by the Ropkey family. It stemmed from the founder Fred Ropkey's interest in military history and his past career as a tank platoon leader in the U.S. Marine Corps during the early 1950s. [2] The Ropkey Armor Museum closed July 29, 2017. Afterwards, the vehicle collection was downsized.
Indiana Medical History Museum: Indianapolis: Marion: Central: Medical: Focus is beginning of scientific psychiatry and modern medicine Indiana Military Museum: Vincennes: Knox: South: Military: website, America’s military history from the American Revolution to the present day Indiana Railway Museum: French Lick: Orange: South: Railroad ...
The MIM-104 Patriot is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary of its kind used by the United States Army and several allied nations. On 15 October 1964, the Secretary of Defense directed that the Army Air Defense System for the 1970s (AADS-70s) program name be changed to Surface-to-Air Missile, Development (SAM-D). [10]
Pages in category "Military and war museums in Indiana" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Tenth Air Force was moved from Omaha, Nebraska, and headquartered at both Schoen Field on Fort Harrison and Stout Army Air Field in Indianapolis. [11] Overcrowding and inadequate facilities soon forced the 10th Air Force to move to Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan, and the Army reacquired control of Fort Benjamin Harrison.
The museum purchased a site west of Vincennes close to the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, where it reopened on 31 May 2013. [10] It acquired A4D, F-16 and Lim-5R airplanes in 2015, a T-34 tank the following year and the sail of the submarine USS Indianapolis the year after that.
Mid America Flight Museum, Mount Pleasant; Midland Army Air Field Museum, Midland; Museum of Aerospace Medicine, San Antonio – closed; National Aviation Education Center, Dallas; National WASP WWII Museum, Sweetwater; No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum, Terrell [83] Pate Museum of Transportation, Cresson – closed
The M15 half-track, officially designated M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun on a half-track chassis used by the United States Army during World War II. It was equipped with one 37 millimeter (1.5 in) M1 autocannon and two water-cooled .50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2 Browning heavy machine guns.