Deitz
Command Sergeant Major
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Catigney Park is home to the First Division Museum. The museum is great, it covers the 1st Division from the First World War to Desert Storm. You walk through a trench, a bunker, there is a short movie and then the landing craft opens and you walk on to Omaha Beach, you walk through the jungles of
Vietnam. There is much more that I have not listed. It has many interactive displays. Outside of the museum there is a tank park that has tanks and artillery pieces from World War I(M1917 Light Tank) to Desert Storm (M1 Abrams Tank). The website has a much better discription of the museum and tank park.
The museum is on the estate of Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. He was in the First Dvision and in the battle of Catigney and renamed his estate after Cantigny when he returned home from World War I.
It is a great venue to hold a toy soldier show.
I picked up the King Tiger at the show.
Vietnam. There is much more that I have not listed. It has many interactive displays. Outside of the museum there is a tank park that has tanks and artillery pieces from World War I(M1917 Light Tank) to Desert Storm (M1 Abrams Tank). The website has a much better discription of the museum and tank park.
The museum is on the estate of Colonel Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. He was in the First Dvision and in the battle of Catigney and renamed his estate after Cantigny when he returned home from World War I.
It is a great venue to hold a toy soldier show.
I picked up the King Tiger at the show.