Hey everyone, Spectre and I are going down to the Patton Museum with our dad’s this Thursday and Friday. I’m bringing along my my digi cam and about 5gb’s worth of memory cards(4gb primary and 1gb spare). Does anyone have any picture requests? You know, like a certain angle of the King Tiger or a close up of the Pershing’s drive sprocket? That kind of thing. I’d be more than happy to help. By the way, this will be our first time there and we’re more than a bit excited.
Erik
OMG! I am OD green with envy. I visited the museum once a long time ago with my S.O. and found it hard to breathe even then with all the cool militaria about. Unfortunately, I was not able to spend much time due to the spouse’s disinterest. Fearing for my life I reluctantly agreed to depart. I’m certain that any pic’s would be awesome especially one’s of the more obscure items.
Bring picture IDs, proof of insurance and vehicle registration if you plan on entering main post. You can get to the museum without entering main post, but there are also some restored tanks displayed around the main parade field (Brooks Field has an M4A3E8, XM803 and XM800T).
The vast majority of the old armor on post has been towed to the museum’s motor pool (Richardson Motor Park) near a place called French Range (it is the gun range open to the public). There should be signs or ask the gate guard for directions to French Range. Richardson is a stone throw from French Range.
Other tanks are just sitting in a parking lot in front of the historic LST building. That is on Eisenhower Ave, about 2 miles from the museum. Just down the street from Burger King, easy to get to, but if you need to ask for directions to the main BK, not the one at the PX food court. About a half dozen post war US tanks parked like the crews just ran across the street to the mess hall.
If the Panther II is there, how about a few nice color pics of that? I should say the Panther II chassis with the Panther Ausf. G turret mounted in it. You’re lucky, have fun and enjoy.
Thanks for the info Rob. We have military ID’s so it won’t be a problem getting around.
Panzer88, I’ll grab some if I see it.
Erik
New rules in effect, even with military ID, you will need to enter through the Chaffee Gate (old Bullion Gate). You will have to stop at the Visitor’s Center and get a pass, unless you have current DoD window stickers.
Got that too. My dad is current Air Guard and my friend’s dad is current Army Guard heli pilot. So we’ll be driving one of their cars.
Does any have an aproximate time that it takes to go through the whole museum?
Erik
45 min to an hour unless you watch some of the videos in the Abrams Auditorium.
Alright guys, leaving in a few minutes. I’ll have internet so I can still get to your requests.
Erik
Well, i just hugged a King Tiger. My life is complete lol.
We’ve gone through the museum quickly today. We’re going back tomorrow to take a lot of pictures. Here are a few from today.
Me standing in front of the T28. What a beast!
Spectre and his dad staring in awe of the King Tiger.
Erik
How ironic! I’m going there tomarrow! see you there!
Yeah? We’ll be there as soon as it opens for an hour or two. Look for a couple of teenagers gawking at the King Tiger and taking pics.
Erik
Geist: I’m going all OD in 2010 so that would be great!.. any pictures of a Stuart, Lee, Pershing and Sherman (M4A1 specifically) would be helpful. With the amount of photos you plan to take it would help us here if you would post them in subcategories by vehicle and let us grab what we want.
Thanks for offering, very neighborly of you[C):-)]! I wish I could go to!
Ok guys, I’m going to post a list of each tank that I have pictures of.
WWI- Post WWII
British MK V
M2A1
M2A3
M1917
Renault FT17
Ford 3 ton
WWII-Korea
Hetzer(G13) http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/Hetzer/
King Tiger (332)http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Jagdtiger%20in%20box%20review/King%20Tiger%20332/
M3
M3A1 Scout Car http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/M3A1%20scout%20car/
M4A3
M4A4 E8 http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/M4A3E8/
M5
M5 half track
M7 Priest http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/M7%20Priest/
M10 GMC http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/M10%20GMC/
M24 Chaffee
M31 ARV
M32 ARV http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/M32%20ARV/
Marder II
Panther II http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/Panther%20II/
Pershing http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/Pershing/
SdKfz 223
StuG III G
T28 http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/T28/
T34/85 http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/T34%2085/
Pak 38
PaK 40
Flak 36
Patton’s car
T29
Vietnam- Modern
M1A1
Xm1
M48A2C
M48A3
M60A1
M113A1
Ontos http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c229/ColSchmitz/Patton%20Museum/Ontos/
Xm 551
I’m working on getting these hosted slowly but surely. Ones that have shown more interest will be posted sooner.
Here are some KT teaser shots.
Erik
Here are some more general pictures of the museum.
Patton’s car
I’m still working on the rest of the tank pictures. I tokk around 400 pictures so it’s taking awhile. Keep an eye here for updates.
Erik
Erik,
Really appreciate sharing these pics with us!