Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American forces engaged in the first major amphibious invasion of World War II, attacking the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific Ocean on August 7, 1942. Air, sea, and ground combat with the...
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...
