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Aberdeen Proving Ground 2005

sksvlad

sksvlad

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I decided to post these old photos. My understanding is that this museum does not exist any more.
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Sucks that they closed this amazing facility. It was on my bucket list. I bet they had a lot of great tank ammunition on display :)

Jason
 
Jason, When I was working there from '07 to '10 they were in the process of transferring a lot of the small arms and several of the larger pieces to Ft. Lee, VA, to include Leopold (Anzio Annie). They had some rounds on display, but a great majority of it was stored in a warehouse off the main drag and VERY few had access to them. I can't tell you what is there now. Thanks Vlad, for posting your adventures yet again. Cheers, Bruce.
 
It has moved to Virginia. However there is not a building for a museum for them there. They packaged everything up and it is sitting in warehouses. Some of the bigger items were moved to other museums throughout the U.S. Mainly the tanks and artillery pieces. Talking to them I am guessing I will never see an actual ORDNANCE museum again.

As for the ordnance, if you look at the random ordnance thread US-SUBS has started, you can see some of the items they had in the warehouse their.

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/86996-Random-Museum-Ordnance-Photos

Joe


Joe
 
Vlad, "plus one" on what Bruce said: Thanks for posting your pictures. My favorite in the "Mile of Tanks" was the 37mm Vigilante "rotary cannon" air defense system.
Towards the end, the museum building at Aberdeen had a very small EOD display. Now that an EOD "hut" is being added to the Armament Museum at Eglin, hopefully the Army will provide some of those exhibits, or something similar.
Taber
 
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