The warehouse of treasures exists

[BobR]

Indy was right, it does go into a huge warehouse. And this is only the Army's storage, what does the Navy and the youngest branch, the Air Force have?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/inside-the-armys-spectacular-hidden-treasure-room


bob

[Regolith]

…but behind a series of highly alarmed doors…

So what scared them?

[Bigjake]

Thanks for posting,  really cool.

[freakazoid]

That is amazing. It says the place was built in 2010, I wonder where everything was stored before then.

[RoadKingLarry]

The new one is just for the stuff they've collected since 2010

[vaskidmark]

That is amazing. It says the place was built in 2010, I wonder where everything was stored before then.

My attic.  Yours, too.

Srsly, the Simithsonian has more crap than you could look at in two lifetimes.  Every once in a while they trip over something that got stuffed in a box years ago and literally just fell off a shelf.  There is supposed to be an ongoing effort to catalog everything they have, but figuring out how to categorize some of the stuff seems to have "delayed" the effort.  Sort of like how some bloggers will tag an entry with more tags than there were letters in the post.

stay safe.

[RevDisk]

My attic.  Yours, too.

Srsly, the Simithsonian has more crap than you could look at in two lifetimes.  Every once in a while they trip over something that got stuffed in a box years ago and literally just fell off a shelf.  There is supposed to be an ongoing effort to catalog everything they have, but figuring out how to categorize some of the stuff seems to have "delayed" the effort.  Sort of like how some bloggers will tag an entry with more tags than there were letters in the post.

stay safe.

Seriously, I'd love to see the Smithsonian get the space to display even a quarter of its collection.

[Tallpine]

Well, if we ever have to fight another war with flintlocks, it's good to know the Army will be ready.   

[White Horseradish]

Well, if we ever have to fight another war with flintlocks, it's good to know the Army will be ready.   

Hm. Isn't this the plot of BSG on a smaller scale?

[Scout26]

Hmmm, I wonder if perhaps they might have some of the looted Nazi Artwork?


And I would love to see some of the stuff they have.  Like the guidons of 8th ID and 2nd Bde again.  I know they haven't seen the light of day since 1992.

[RevDisk]

Hmmm, I wonder if perhaps they might have some of the looted Nazi Artwork?


And I would love to see some of the stuff they have.  Like the guidons of 8th ID and 2nd Bde again.  I know they haven't seen the light of day since 1992.

They have some of Hitler's art. So... yep.

[geronimotwo]

part of me wants to curse them for wasting my money by storing this stuff, and the other part reminds me of what a joy it is to go to the wright patterson afb museum.

[RevDisk]

part of me wants to curse them for wasting my money by storing this stuff, and the other part reminds me of what a joy it is to go to the wright patterson afb museum.

It's a drop in the button, and preserving history is a legitimate function of government, IMHO. That said, they could auction off a tiny percentage of the loot to cover all expenses. If it's just being stored and not on display, no cares?

[BobR]

I used to spend a lot of time at the museum at Ft. Sill when I was growing up. Where else can a kid crawl around on artillery pieces dating from WW1 and Atomic Annie. Not to mention all of the neat stuff they had from the expansion of the west time period. When my father died, we turned a lot of his stuff over to them, he had discharge certificates from the 30's that were handwritten, along with other things he accrued during his 30+ years of active duty.

bob

[K Frame]

Hmmm, I wonder if perhaps they might have some of the looted Nazi Artwork?


And I would love to see some of the stuff they have.  Like the guidons of 8th ID and 2nd Bde again.  I know they haven't seen the light of day since 1992.

Anything is possible, but I would really doubt it.

After WW II ended and the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives recovery people in full swing, there was a plan to borrow some of the looted Nazi art and display it in the United States.

While it was partially done with noble intentions, given that many of the nations to which the art belonged no longer had a pot to piss in, or a place to store it, and many of the individual collectors were dead, the US saw it as a means of protecting and conserving the most important masterpieces while at the same time introducing the American public to them.

The backblast from that plan was pretty dramatic, not just in Europe, but also in the United States, and the plan was dropped.

While I have absolute no doubt that there is stolen/looted art in the United States, I doubt that there is any of it in the Army's collection.

Other than Hitler's watercolors, that is. And those were, frankly, legitimately confiscated as having been the personal property/creation of an enemy leader, so they don't qualify as having been looted.