West Point Museum - History of Warfare

West Point Museum History of Warfare

First Floor

"History of Warfare" Gallery

The history of the military art is part of each cadet's required curriculum. This gallery is closely coordinated with the academic courses on military history and traces warfare from the ancient world to the present. The gallery highlights the technological changes in warfare and the strategic and tacitical changes brought on by those new technologies. Displays include dioramas of significant battles in hisotry, as well as Napoleon's sword and pistols, the safety plug removed from the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and trophies of war surrendered by a defeated Nazi Germany.

Napoleon's Pistols

Diorama of the Battle of Austerlitz

Model of Bock's Car the B-29 that dropped the Fatman Atom bomb

Close up of the Safety Plug.

The green plug was taken out in flight and replaced with a red "Armed" plug.

World War II War Trophies surrendered by Germany

Chemical Warfare Gear

Bronze Age Weapons

The realities of Trench Warfare, French World War I helmet

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