What are your favorite units?

[5 Leichte Div]

Nice pics , Crossroads ! Thanks for sharing .. some of our younger members may not have ever seen those tanks up close and personal. This gives them some physical perspective.

Crummy me does NOT have any nice pics , however :

In the U.S. -- we have the Patton Armor Museum near Louisville, Kentucky, which has some WW2 and later models inside, including modern Russsian T72 ! A Panther, StugIII, PzIIIJ in African camo, T34/85, some Korean War - US M46, M47 , improvements of the M26 Pershing. I think .. a King Tiger, too.

The Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum ( near Baltimore,Maryland ) outdoors has a tank park with many tanks of the WW2 era from several nation combatants. Infantry weapons are inside.

Closer to my home area of Chicago,( in Warrenville , near Wheaton,IL west of Chicago ) the Cantigny 1st Infantry Division Memorial Museum has a tank park outside that displays a WWI light tank, M3 Stuart, a M24 Chaffee, some big US tanks ... M26 Pershing, M46 Patton, M47 Patton, M48 Patton , M60 , and I think also a M1 Abrams. There is also a M51 Sheridan ... so there is a good look at the post WW2 US tank development. You can climb onto these things and bust your neck, just to get a real good feel for the stuff, if you like.
The museum inside has a very fine living diarama of the WWI trench system that you can walk thru, and a WW2 recruiter's " welcome " area -with a sound bar of a DI to replicate the experience. A nice battle scene diarama of the Battle of the Bulge that has a M4A3/76 in the scene. Also, displays about the Korean War, Vietnam, and our recent Desert Storm (1991). Not bad at all, guys.

In NE Indiana ( Auburn ) there is another fine museum ( the National Military History Center's WWII Victory Museum ) indoors has a fine collection that includes a field mount FLAK88, and it is a tall weapon , big gun ! When I was there in 2004 , also had a US M18 Hellcat , rare to see one of those. Trucks ... Allied and Axis .. not glamorous , but by far a more common sight for any soldier then.

All of these museums are open to the public and a small donation is always much appreciated. If you ever get the chance ... stop in and enjoy , learn.

That is all. Relieved !
And ... " Good Luck to you " , Bud !
( Happy Holidays one and all ! )

Tom S.
5 Leichte Div