Ordnance miscellaneous photograph collection, 1865-1973.

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Ordnance miscellaneous photograph collection, 1865-1973.

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General description of the collection: The Ordnance miscellaneous photograph collection is composed of a wide variety of ordnance subjects and time periods. Much of boxes 1 through 3 are of the Vietnam War era, showing the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in Kansas, ammo belt loading equipment, small arms, edged weapons, machine guns, field artillery, tanks, ammunition, rockets, missiles etc. Box 7 contains large oversize photos of seacoast and siege artillery from 1865 to 1918, and schematic drawings of WWI railroad artillery. Box 4 contains photos from Major General E.L. Ford from the early 1950s, including tours of the tank production at the Chrysler Plant at Newark, Delaware. Box 5 is the Colonel Milton E. Wilson collection. It shows WWI era family photos, World War II (WWII) training photos and retirement photos of 1949. Box 6 is the General Charles D.Y. Ostrom collection, most of which shows Abderdeen Proving Grounds between 1965 and 1971. Boxes 8 and 9 contain original and copy drawings of tanks and armored vehicles by Mr. J. Edward Christie from the 1930s. Box 10 is a huge album of photos of the Krupp armory in Essen, Germany circa 1885. Subsequent box additions to this collection contain photographs of Bartlett Howard Co., Baltimore, the Schneider howitzer and shell production.

12 boxes (1208 photographs and drawings)

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7600975

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Fried. Krupp AG

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Wilson, Milton E.

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Christie, J. Edward

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Ford, E. L.

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Bartlett Howard Co. (Baltimore, Md.)

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United States. Army

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Wilson family

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Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (U.S.)

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Ostrom, Charles D. Y., Jr., 1913-

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Charles D.Y. Ostrom, Jr. was a United States (U.S.) Army officer who entered the Army in 1941. His field of expertise was ammunition and ordnance. He served in ammunition operations in World War II and the Korean War. After these wars, he participated in ordnance research at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) and Picatinny Arsenal. He was also involved in ordnance education. Ostrom retired from the Army in 1972 and wrote on a various ordnance subjects. From the description of Charles D.Y....