Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - Interwar Period
Constructed at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois in the mid-1930s, the M2A2 light tank was the first production model tank both designed and built in the United States. By 1942, the pre-WWII tanks were declared obsolete and were recycled or dispersed to various bases as...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - Interwar Period
From August 1-14, 1938, soldiers from Mississippi and the Southeast participated in the 3rd Army War Maneuvers. Commonly referred to as the Mississippi Maneuvers, these war training exercises took place in the De Soto National Forest, between Hattiesburg and Gulfport,...
Jan 14, 2023 | Artifact - Interwar Period, Artifact - WW I
In March 1929, 11 years after the First World War, Congress authorized fully-funded, government-organized pilgrimages for mothers and widows to visit American military cemeteries in Europe. Between 1930 and 1933, the United States government transported nearly 7,000...
