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Posted: 4/10/2016 9:16:01 PM EDT

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Yep, not a place you would expect to find a world class space museum.

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Hutchinson KS has a few.

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Yep, not a place you would expect to find a world class space museum.

Nor Weatherford OK. That little town in BFE has an amazing museum!

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:18:33 PM EDT

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Hutchinson KS has a few.

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Yep, not a place you would expect to find a world class space museum.

There a pretty decent museum smack in the middle of Texas in Fredericksburg. http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:25:32 PM EDT

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Back in the 50's and 60's when I was a kid, there were very few courthouse squares in the Midwest that didn't have a tank, cannon, howitzer or fighter jet on the courthouse lawn.

Some of the tanks were open and we used to get inside them and play. Now everything has the hatches welded shut and increasingly they have them roped-off with chains...or removed entirely.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:27:21 PM EDT

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Evansville Indiana

LST's were made in Evansville, but 325 wasn't

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Is the bar still there above the LST's berth?

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:31:52 PM EDT

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Nikolaev, Ukraine. It's a fairly small city..

This is down the road in Kershon.

And this one is in Odessa..

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:34:11 PM EDT

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Word had it, that when that F94 was pulled down, there were active guns still in it..

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Kind of doubtful, given that the F-94C never had any guns...

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:40:59 PM EDT

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M42 Duster at the American Legion hall in Carson City, MI. I wish I had close up pictures of it.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:41:18 PM EDT

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Pooler, GA.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:42:30 PM EDT

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Nikolaev, Ukraine. It's a fairly small city..

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This is down the road in Kershon.
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And this one is in Odessa..
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Now that is cool! Thanks!

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:45:29 PM EDT

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Baton Rouge. USS Kidd.

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Same place

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My uncles jet.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:51:17 PM EDT

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These earned my wife and I a visit from the SP guard at the gate and the stink eye by what looked like the SP boss (in his Police truck).

Some Nosey Nancy ( I wish I had gotten a picture of her, Black lady with the most hideous fro/Beehive thing

) and her husband in a little car cruised out of the gate and saw my wife, and turned around at the exit and came back in stopping in front of my wife and taking her picture while she was taking a pic of a static. Then proceeded to go to the gate and show the picture on her phone to the SP and said this woman is suspicious and she has a camera.

Then on the way out the second time the idiots saw me too. LOL

SP was cool. We cracked a few jokes about it.

And the B-25 as seen from the IR sensor on the 101.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:53:23 PM EDT

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Elmendorf AFB AK

Eielson AFB AK

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:53:57 PM EDT

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My town has an A4 in front of the courthouse.

When the apocalypse happens, I kinda want to go steal it.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:55:24 PM EDT

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Awesome thread!

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:56:31 PM EDT

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Nikolaev, Ukraine. It's a fairly small city..

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This is down the road in Kershon.
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And this one is in Odessa..
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Now that is cool! Thanks!

It's been very cool for me, to see some of the stuff I've seen there. Here is the link to a bunch more. I tend to gravitate to airplanes, since that's my gig, but lots of other MIL stuff also.

Pictures

Posted: 4/10/2016 10:07:26 PM EDT

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Grand Forks AFB

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Posted: 4/10/2016 10:16:03 PM EDT

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Grew up seeing her fairly regularly.

But Memphis wins again and the USAF, rightfully so, took her away.

Back in the day

Posted: 4/10/2016 10:18:50 PM EDT

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What does it take to get a local VFW post anything like this, demilled armor, artillery, anything, probably not any airframe though.

Posted: 4/10/2016 10:20:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/10/2016 10:24:19 PM EDT

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When I was still a member of the local Legion Post, they filled out a request for a anchor

They had to pay the shipping costs and the cost of the setting

I'll see if I can grab a pic of it this week

Posted: 4/10/2016 10:27:51 PM EDT

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From today... on the way back to the Oscar Zero and November 33 missile site and control center museums again.

Finley ND

Posted: 4/10/2016 10:45:08 PM EDT

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They have some nice armor in Calhoun, Ga. Was returning from Zombie Ops at Camp Sidney Dew when we rolled past it.

Not my pic:

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:04:12 PM EDT

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VA hospital. Bonham Tx

F86L at Grayson County Airport, Denison, Tx

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:13:14 PM EDT

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Local court house has some Civil War era coastal artillery cannons flanking the front steps. They load up blank powder charges in them and fire them at the commencement and end of the 4th of July fireworks display. A local park used to have a Patton on static display but it was removed a few years ago. Not exactly sure why but I know it was regularly vandalized by kids so that might have something to do with it.

On a side note why do they paint the canopies gray on so many static displayed aircraft? I always wondered the purpose behind this.

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:16:41 PM EDT

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On my bird above the whole thing is painted. The canopy is blue because the glass gets hazed and crazy looking after being in the sun so long. It looks better to paint it because it protects the metal better. Probably cheaper in the long run to paint vs polishing the metal.

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:23:32 PM EDT

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On my bird above the whole thing is painted. The canopy is blue because the glass gets hazed and crazy looking after being in the sun so long. It looks better to paint it because it protects the metal better. Probably cheaper in the long run to paint vs polishing the metal.

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Thanks, makes sense now.

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:34:12 PM EDT

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Spotted this little relic in Raton, NM during a visit to the Whittington Center.

Posted: 4/10/2016 11:42:05 PM EDT

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Canton TX has a pretty sweet display with ALL branches represented, I was like WTF when I saw the 41' USCG UTB that far inland.

Posted: 4/11/2016 9:19:37 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/11/2016 10:11:29 PM EDT

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Is that a static Jeep in with all that armor?

Posted: 4/11/2016 10:32:09 PM EDT

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When I last visited Anniston, AL, a year ago to get another Garand at the CMP; I noticed the local VFW building was for sale. It had a nice M48 or M60 sitting in the parking lot. I wondered if the tank came with the building, or if the Army would come get it. I passed an M60 on a flat bed heading into Jackson, TN a week ago. They had one at the local ARNG post, but I don't know if this was that one. A local courthouse has a German Maxim in concrete out front. IT was neat.

Posted: 4/11/2016 10:33:37 PM EDT

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That's my Jeep!

Posted: 4/11/2016 10:52:40 PM EDT

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That's my Jeep!

Posted: 4/12/2016 6:41:43 PM EDT

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There's a fighter next to I90 in Erie PA near I79
it's one of the early jet fighters but I'm not sure the model number

Posted: 4/15/2016 12:06:20 AM EDT

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7" mortar about 3 miles from me in Hurley WI.

There are a few more guns around, but they are buried in snow right now.

Posted: 4/15/2016 2:21:05 AM EDT

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It's an F-94,I saw it on a motorcycle tour of the Great Lakes. The great 2000 miles in the rain tour of 2005

Posted: 4/15/2016 2:43:28 AM EDT

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There's a DUKW sitting in a public park in Lake Isabella, CA, in the Sierra foothills above Bakersfield.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMKDWV_GMC_DUKW_or_Duck_Lake_Isabella_California

Posted: 4/17/2016 7:23:54 PM EDT

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Anoka Minnesota

Medal of Honor Statue for Hometown Marine

There are a couple of others in neighboring towns I'll get to this week

Posted: 4/17/2016 7:38:50 PM EDT

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Medal of Honor Statue for Hometown Marine

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Cool. Thank you.

Posted: 4/17/2016 9:04:21 PM EDT

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Spent 4 years there.

Posted: 4/18/2016 8:11:10 PM EDT

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Coon Rapids, Minnesota

1944 155mm

Posted: 4/18/2016 8:15:52 PM EDT

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Very cool. Thanks.

Posted: 4/18/2016 9:52:50 PM EDT

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The process to get a ship is ridiculous! I actually stumbled upon the list of ships that were available, and decided to research the process to obtain one as a museum piece because I had some time to waste. What struck me was the requirement of having a disposal plan for the ship should you not be able to continue to care for it. There didn't seem to be a way to pass it along to someone else better able to care for it, straight to the scrappers.

Back on topic...these photos are not mine but these are what came to mind.

I grew up near Union City, TN and this M7 was out front of the National Guard armory. Today its over at the VFW post.

I was driving through Gallatin, TN last year and out at the airport was this F-4. I know nothing about it other than its an F-4.

Not a small town, and I haven't visited it yet, but this is in Centennial Park in Nashville. I didn't realize it was there, so I plan to at least go check it out. The quote is from the plaque:

“This F86L Sabre Jet was flown by the the Tennessee Air National Guard from 1957 – 1960 in support of the USAF Air Defense Command. After being retired from active service it was given to the City of Nashville. I was renovated and mounted in 1982 by these men of the Nashville Air National Guard Unit.”

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