Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
The Liberator was conceived in 1942 as part of a plan by the US Army’s Joint Psychological Warfare Committee to manufacture inexpensive, quickly mass-produced pistols to arm resistance fighters in enemy-occupied territories. The single-shot pistol was not issued to US...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW I
Henry Jetton Tudury (1885-1952), of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, served in the 12th Machinegun Battalion, 59th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, during World War I. Throughout his service in France, Tudury served as a runner, carrying messages to and from the trenches,...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Operating from 1943 to 1945, the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) was a joint organization of pilots and crewmen from the United States Army Air Forces and Chinese Air Force. Colonel Wendell D. Lack (1916-1980) of Mize, Mississippi, served as a bomber pilot with...
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,...
