Tank Museum

Anyone ever been to or heard of this Tank Museum in Danville VA ?
http://www.aaftankmuseum.com/index.html
They are moving to my podunk 3 traffic light town. They bought a former foundry building that has ben setting empty for years and are going to renovate and move in sometime by the end of the year
Might be interesting

Sounds neat,I love to see those old tanks restored!

Bill That would be a great job.Working on old tanks,half tracksAt least take some pictures when they start to move in.
LP

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Originally Posted by LEAD POISON

Bill That would be a great job.Working on old tanks,half tracksAt least take some pictures when they start to move in.
LP

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From what I hear they are going to be bringing them in on train and trucking them the last mile. Where they will be unloading off the train is right beside the Street Dept building where I work so I should be able to keep a eye on whats going on

Okay, The museum in Ft Knox is awesome... maybe this one is for extra tanks...og.

Patton Museum has just a couple tanks. Over the last couple of years all the museum armor was moved to Fort Benning (I believe). Patton Museum is now a good place to do research on Gen. Patton. Since they moved all the armor from Ft. Knox and Aberdeen it sits in storage in Georgia as the planned new museum has no funding at this point. All part of the base re-alignment thing.

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Originally Posted by ordmm

Patton Museum has just a couple tanks. Over the last couple of years all the museum armor was moved to Fort Benning (I believe). Patton Museum is now a good place to do research on Gen. Patton. Since they moved all the armor from Ft. Knox and Aberdeen it sits in storage in Georgia as the planned new museum has no funding at this point. All part of the base re-alignment thing.

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Well Crap, I enjoyed going there and planned another trip..The Huge Tiger II was a nice treat, they had it cut thru the side so you could see inside and the thickness of the armor... Guess i'l just have to enjoy my DVD, that i made of photos..I guess they had over 100 tanks..Including the one old m4 out back that was used for target practice??I always wanted one of the Aluminum models for my own to spin around the fields?

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Originally Posted by Old Guard

... Guess i'l just have to enjoy my DVD, that i made of photos..I guess they had over 100 tanks..Including the one old m4 out back that was used for target practice??I always wanted one of the Aluminum models for my own to spin around the fields?

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Well, you will always have the memories. Yeah, that Tiger was one heck of a machine to look at.

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The Huge Tiger II was a nice treat, they had it cut thru the side so you could see inside and the thickness of the armor...

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Oh my... I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. I mean... why on Earth would they dissect a Tiger II? And a Sherman for target practice? Yikes.

I can understand wanting to beat our weapons back into plows after the war, but I wish that there was more thought put into the preservation of historic equipment back then.

Ohio has everything, you have that neat plane museum and now this.