Visit to the US Army Ordinance Museum Part II

Before sharing some more pictures, I wanted to share a couple more things about the museum. First- it is free to visit(but you are going onto a US Military base so a photo driver license and(for drivers) a car registration slip is required. There is a museum building which houses hundreds of pieces of small arms from M1 Rifles to Panzerfausts and MG-42 machine guns. Pretty much every famous gun, big and small, is housed in this two-story complex. Also, the museum vehicle collection, as I understand it, is moving to Virginia in a year or so and will be housed completely indoors. Though I am thankful the collection will be protected from the elements, I feel lucky to have had the fun of exploring a field of tanks on a beautiful day!

First, an Italian M13 tank...

M3 Grant/Lee Tank(USA)...

M10 "Wolverine" Tank Destroyer(USA)

An M4A3 76mm gun Sherman(USA)

A 210mm German field piece(immense)...

The open crew compartment of a Wespe self-propelled gun(Germany)...

A Nashorn German 88mm Tank Hunter...

The famous "Elefant" 88mm anti-tank vehicle on a Tiger chassis(Germany)...

Some of the items we saw that I did not post pictures of...

"Leopold" German railcar gun from Anzio, Sherman Firefly, Churchill Tank, Matilda, Stuart, Jagdpanzer IV, Brummbar, 16" Coastal Defense Gun, French S-35 and R-35 tanks, Italian Semovante 90mm SPG, Japanese Chi-Ha, US 280mm "Atomic Cannon" and many more.

It was truly a pleasure to enjoy seeing all of the tanks, artillery pieces and small arms. To walk up and touch the thick, cold steel of a Panther tank, and to wonder what stories it has to tell from battlefields an ocean away, is truly undescribable.