Hawthorne Ordnance Museum Memorial
hawthorne, nv
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The museum portion is an actual building with numerous displays of military equipment and other items of a military nature. The open-air exterior facing the street features actual large weaponry. The collection includes a Patton M47 tank, a bazooka, and an M151 MUTT Vietnam era Jeep among several other large items. Reported to be the largest single museum collection of inert large weapons in the world. Its mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit items that have had a significant impact on the freedom of the nation.
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Address:
925 E Street, Hawthorne, Nevada
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History:
Hawthorne Ordnance Museum commemorates the thousands of Military, Civil Service, and Civilian Corporate Personnel that have made significant, and even the ultimate contribution in defending the freedom of the nation. On September 15, 1930, the Secretary of the Navy commissioned the U.S. Navy Ammunition Depot at Hawthorne, Nevada. Four years earlier, July 1926, during the same week that a fire destroyed the Hawthorne business district, the Navy’s principal ammunition depot in Lake Denmark, NJ blew up, destroying the town and killing more than 50 people and injuring hundreds more. The Hawthorne Ordnance Museum commemorates the history of the ammunition depot and its mission in defending the nation’s freedom.