Showing posts with label Carlisle Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carlisle Pennsylvania. Show all posts

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Displays at the Army Museum, Carlisle Pennsylvania

 Soviet poster, World War Two.

 Renault tank from World War One.




 World War One vitnage web gear.



M18 Gun Motor Carriage.


Nice example of a M18 Gun Motor Carriage, tank destroyer.  These were used by the U.S. Army from 1944 during World War Two and were the product of a debate in the U.S. Army over whether tanks or tank destroyers were a better option for taking on other tanks.  They were effectively a lightly armored, opened top, tank. Their disappearance after the war was due to tanks in fact being a better armored fighting vehicle.

This example is at the Army museum at Carlisle Pennsylvania, which as a collection of armor.

Carlisle County Courthouse, Carlisle Pennsylvania


Old Courthouse, Cumberland County Pennsylvania



This is the Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle Pennsylvania, or rather its the Old Courthouse.

The courthouse was built in 1846 and figured in some fugitive slave cases prior to the Civil War.  The courthouse was hit by artillery fire from Stuart's troops prior to their withdrawing towards Gettysburg.