West Point Museum - History of the US Army

Superintendent

Command Sergeant Major

West Point Museum History of the US Army

Second Floor

"History of U.S. Army" Gallery

This gallery is dedicated to the history of the U.S. Army and its contributions to the growth of the Nation. Here are exhibits on the opening of the Frontier, the Buffalo Soldiers, the construction of the Panama Canal, the secret "Manhattan Project" that built the atom bomb, U.S. Army aviation from balloons to space exploration, and the Gulf War of 1991 (Desert Storm).

A Civil War surgeon kit

Medals awarded to George W.

Goethals (USMA 1880) for

completing the Panama Canal

A can crushed by the shock

wave of an atomic test

Portrait of Ed White (USMA 1952)

and Michael Collins (USMA 1952)

A 19th century Altazimuth

telescope

Cadet drawing of the Locks

on the Erie Canal

World War II Medic helmet

Frank Borman's (USMA 1950)

Flight suit jacket

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