Photo by Terrance Bell | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 02.07.2020
Claire Samuelson (middle), chief of the Northeast and OCONUS Regions, Army Museum Enterprise, Army Center of Military History, and her staff members pose amid an imposing backdrop of training aids covering three centuries of ordnance history Feb. 7 at the Col. George B. Jarrett Ordnance Training Support Facility. The staff members are from left to right: Weldon Svoboda, James Blankenship,......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 09.09.2015
"Willie the Whale," an LVT-4 amphibious assault vehicle, is towed into the high bay of Randolph Hall on the Ordnance Campus. Since September 2015, Marines enrolled in courses there have used it as a training aide, performing minor cosmetic work on its exterior. Willie was a fixture at the Marine barracks at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., prior to the Ordnance School’s relocation to Fort......
Photo by Terrance Bell | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 09.04.2014
Claire Samuelson, curator, U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center, kneels in front of the Skeleton Tank prototype. It was recently selected as one of Virginia's 10 Endangered Artifacts by the Virginia Museum Association. The vehicle was built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company as a solution to the trench warfare issues during World War I. The THC is in the midst of fundraising......
