Skippy said:
Nice photos MRCLARK. I especially like the one "about to ruin someones day".
Thanks, guys I was very impressed with this museum and recommend you all check it out and Ive seen alot of museum's. The "ruins someones day"s pic is actually two pics superimposed togther from one of there walk through displays. This was one display was to demonstrate what it was like for the troops in Italy and Greece. You walk into a destroyed small corridor with cobble stone and stucco walls like that part of the world in WW2 and see the commonwealth soldier behind the wall. Then as you walk deeper into the ruins
you see broken chairs and tables then "WATCH OUT GERMAN ON YOUR RIGHT WITH A SMG"
Pretty neat and they include sound effects.
Tbolt said:
Great pictures!
I have to go back and take another look, it has been a few years.
Just a note, you have the M3/5 Stuart labeled as a Grant
Thanks if anyone else see's anymore errors let me know so I can update
Colin said:
Fantastic pictures, many thanks. I got to crawl around that BMP when it was at Vimy House, wonder if the RAM is a runner? do thy have anywhere they can run the vehicles?
Are they displaying anything onAfghanistan yet? What about the issue they had regarding the internal politics where they wanted only to do the War vets and peacekeeping thing?
Ya I believe so and this had some description with the weapon layout for the boys and girls over there
Oldroscoe said:
MRCLARK
Congratulations on an excellent post. I envy your ability with a camera.
I guess I never realized what a fine establishment we have there in Ottawa -
I must make plans... Thanks. Cheers
Ross
Thanks again, it was brutal to get a shot in there not like the DDAY Museum in New Orleans. I had three cameras with me, one for close ups, one for wide angles and one for low light stuff. Thank god I brought my pack mule(commie girlfriend)
TMaC said:
I wish it would have looked like that when I was ther, when did they change it?
Nice pics by the way
Did they still have the Red Barons seat there?
It used to be around the corner from the Chateau Laurier then they made this completely new facility, its built like a friggin fall out shelter, its huge!!!! And yes I did see the cockpit of an old WW1 single seater, I guess that was it.
Gibbs505 said:
Great, I hope that none of those wonderful arms have been demilled!!
Yes a lot were that you could see outside the glass but I did not see any welds on the ones inside the glass. This bad boy was definetely a deact
you could fondle it and everything
There was a few of these as
MMM has stated and they were welded to the wall so you could touch it but no clicky clicky. They could have at least made the trigger move, but oh well I guess they didnt need the hassle from the dooshbag feds.
eltorro said:
Beautifull!!
regarding Hitler's car......
Political correctness and history never went hand in hand....
There have been only 60 years since WWII. We've learned of historic events that were depicted as terrible, to find out 20 years later that it wasn't so bad because someone else with poorer manners came along...
Nice Museum. Thanks for sharing.
I,m so glad they didnt sell it either,
I remember the press interviewing the custodian of the old museum and he wanted to bend over to the folks who wanted it sold or destroyed, can you imagine. Whats next book burning. They in now way glorified it or the regime in any way buts its our history,when people ask why our troops died over there what do we say? Ummmm we cant talk about it? The ####ler mobile and its paranoid accessories are a perfect display to show what happens when we dont control ourselves. We need to remember what happened so we can never let it happen again our at least make an effort to stop it etc etc if you know what I mean.
Tango2 said:
Lol you got all the same pictures of the best stuff I took. I didn't see the fighter jet I was too busy looking at all the tanks.
Heres the cool part, I dont know if you guys remembered but I went to Borden a few years back to see Worthington park
http://www.pbase.com/mrclark/cfb_borden_2004 and its supply of rusting tanks again when I noticed something odd. Behind the park where a few old closed up buildings stood that reportedly used to be the old tank museum stood these
note the stuff under the tarps
Well it turns out after I talked to a few folks back then that these were going to be displayed at this new Museum it Ottawa and they took them out of storage. They were not dragged out if you look in some of the pics you can see track marks!!! And on the tops some of the hatches were open but secured with just a chain and padlock. The when I spoke with some people in the new Museum they said most in not all were drivable still to this day.
So most of the tanks you see I took pics of in Borden were prepped for the new museum a few years later.
I would love to know where this went though?
I didnt see it in Ottawa?
