#16: Re: Hayes Optupolak (I am sure I spelled that wrong) Author: BryanWilson, Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:51 pm ---- I visited the KC WWI museum this past spring. Unfortunately, I only had a couple hours to spend there. If you have a chance, I highly recommend visiting the museum. A LOT of interesting artifacts & information that do a good job of telling the story of WWI. I plan on visiting again next year but setting aside a lot more time for it.
#17: Re: Hayes Optupolak (I am sure I spelled that wrong) Author: armyjunk2, Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:54 pm ---- Bryan, did you see much artillery?
#18: Re: Hayes Optupolak (I am sure I spelled that wrong) Author: BryanWilson, Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:07 pm ----
- armyjunk2
Bryan, did you see much artillery?
Yes, quite a bit for the size of the museum. I want to say maybe a dozen examples, including some smaller naval guns but could be way off on that. IIRC, there were also some examples of trench mortars and, of course, heavy machine guns, rifles, clothing, gear, etc.
#19: Re: Hayes Optupolak (I am sure I spelled that wrong) Author: lovett155, Location: Falls Church/Washington DCPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:38 pm ---- The Kansas City Memorial Museum is certainly great for its artillery collection. However, as you say, most of the collection is in storage. Strangely, the pieces are stored in an underground storage area, which had been a mine of some type. The lighting is very poor, as you can imagine but I have seen the total collection.
The former Curator restored the 15cm sFH 1893 and the 15cm sFH 1902. These and a few other pieces are on display within the museum. Somewhere, I have the total list of pieces. These are the German pieces, to my memory:
#20: Re: Hayes Optupolak (I am sure I spelled that wrong) Author: armyjunk2, Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:49 pm ---- I show these.....but I have never seen any of them...this is from dicks list
