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Aberdeen Proving Ground 2005
- Thread starter sksvlad
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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.
skull181
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Hasn't it moved to Virginia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Ordnance_Museum
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
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
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
sksvlad
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I was at a gun show in Baltimore (near Baltimore, since I am still alive) and bought a bag of APG things. The 1st one needs an explanation. It is an internal mail pouch from 1943, if you wanted to share some sensitive information, but were not sure about spies around, you'd put the note inside, folded the top brown part so the opposing holes became one, sealed it with a rivet and gave it to the messenger. Inside this pouch there were small photos of some base, may or may not be APG. If anyone can take a guess, that would be great.
