Stow, American Heritage Museum, 568 Main Street.
The American Heritage Museum is a military history museum located on the grounds of the Collings Foundation in the town of Stow, Massachusetts, 21 miles (34 km) west of Boston. The collection consists of over 100 artifacts, most of which were formerly part of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation collection in Portola Valley, California. Over half of the items on display are from the Second World War era, with First World War, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, Iraq War, and the war on terror also represented. Most of the items on display, including tanks and artifacts, are American, German, Russian, or British in origin. (Wikipedia)
(Schierbecker Photo)
British Churchill Mk. VII Crocodile flamethrowing tank, indoors. Similar to this one at the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection at Fort Benning, Georgia.
(AHM Photo)
British Comet tank, indoors. Registration No. T-3350011048.
(AHM Photo)
British Cromwell tank, indoors.
British Universal Carrier, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
British Vickers Mk. VIA tank, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
British Daimler Armoured Car Mk. II, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
British Matilda II Mk. IV tank, indoors.
Czech OT-810, std.
(AHM Photo)
LVT(A)-4 USA indoors.
(Daderot Photo)
M16 Half-Track GMC, USA, indoors, Serial No. 276258. Painted 4015947.
(AHM Photo)
M18 Hellcat, USA, ex-Yugoslavia.
M1A1 Abrams USA ind
M2 Half Track USA ind, Serial No. M2-5947.
(AHM Photo)
M22 Locust USA ind.
M24 Chaffee USA std, Serial No. 1541, Registration No. 301195601055.
M26A1 Pershing USA ind, Serial No. 801, Registration No. 301275471056.
M29C Weasel USA ind.
M3 75 mm Gun Motor Carriage USA std, Serial No. M3-75-1920.
(IWM Photo, SE 3270)
M3 Lee USA ind, Serial No. 45401057. Similar to this British M3 Lee in Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar), during the Burma Campaign in March 1945. Spare tracks are welded onto the front glacis for extra protection.
M36E9 GMC USA/YUG std, Serial No. 14981058.
M39 USA std, Serial No. 21059.
(AHM Photo)
M3A1 Scout Car.
M47 Patton USA ind.
M48A3 Patton USA ind, Serial No. 1298W1061.
M4A1 Sherman Grizzly USA/CAN ind, Serial No. 43; Registration No. CT-1602361062.
M4A3(75) Sherman USA std, Serial No. 12478, Registration No. 30546331063.
M4A3(76) HVSS Sherman USA ind, Serial No. 45472, Registration No. 301017061064.
(AHM Photo)
M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo USA ind, Serial No. 50331, Registration No. 3082928.
M551 Sheridan USA ind.
M5A1 High Speed Tractor USA ind.
(Daderot Photo)
M5A1 Stuart USA/PRT ind, Serial No. 5085, Registration No. 3048197.
M60A1 USA ind, Serial No. 9360, Registration No. JJ010A.
M7B2 Priest USA ind, Serial No. 4374, Registration No. 401528371067.
(Daderot Photo)
M8 Greyhound, USA, indoors. Painted TP-F70-R50.
(AHM Photo)
M8 HMC USA ind, Serial No. SNA-12701068.
(US Army Photo)
T41 Light Tank USA, indoors.
(US National Archives Photo)
Six Ton Tank Model 1917 USA indoors. Similar to the newly completed M1917 at the Van Dorn Iron Works, 1919.
(Huhu Photo)
German Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV (heavy explosive carrier Borgward B IV), similar to this one in the Tank Museum in Munster, Germany. The Borgward B IV was a remote-controlled demolition vehicle used in the Second World War.
German PzKpfw I Ausf A, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
PzKpfw V Panther Ausf A.
(AHM Photo)
German G-13 Hetzer, indoors. Registration No. M-780571049.
(Daderot Photo)
German Sd.Kfz. 2 Kleines Kettenkrad personnel carrier.
German SdKfz. 10, std, Serial No. 7008061073.
(Daderot Photo)
German Leichter Panzerspähwagen Sd.Kfz 222, indoors, Serial No. 81101481074.
(Sean O’Flaherty Photo)
German Sd.Kfz 251/1 Ausf D, WH 1785098, similar to this one preserved in a private collection. Indoors, Registration No. WH17850981075.
German SdKfz. 8 DB 10, std, Serial No. 3401621076.
(Daderot Photo)
German StuG III Ausf G, indoors, Serial No. 92475; Registration No. Ps531-161078.
(AHM Photo)
Japanese Type 4 Ho-Ro tank, indoors.
(Vitaly V. Kuzman Photo)
Soviet SU-100, indoors. Similar to this one on parade in Russia.
Soviet T-34/76 tank, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
Soviet T-34/85 tank, indoors.
Soviet T-55 tank, indoors.
Soviet T-72G tank, former DDR, indoors.
Soviet PT-76B amphibious tank, indoors.
Soviet 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled 122-mm artillery, indoors.
(AHM Photo)
Soviet IS-2 Stalin tank, indoors. Serial No. NC122403341050.
Artillery and Miscellaneous kit
British Cast iron 6-pounder smoothbore muzzleloading cannon, United Kingdom, 1795, in the main lobby of the museum.
British QF 1-pounder pom-pom 37-mm autocannon used as a light anti-aircraft gun, United Kingdom.
French 25-mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun.
German Mercedes G4 staff car.
German Sd.Kfz. 10 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug), special motorized vehicle, half-track.
German 17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer (17 cm mMW), First World War trench mortar.
German 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 (7.5 cm le.IG 18) Infantry support gun.
German 7.5 cm Pak 40 (7,5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40) anti-tank gun.
German 8.8 cm Flak 36 anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun.
German Kommandogerät 40, rangefinder and mechanical analog computer for directing anti-aircraft guns.
(Daderot Photo)
German Flakscheinwerfer, 150-cm anti-aircraft searchlight.
(Daderot Photo)
USA, J-B2 Loon painted to represent a German V-1 Flying Bomb.
(Daderot Photo)
Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82 German reconnaissance car.
(Daderot Photo)
German Volkswagen Schwimmwagen Type 166 amphibious personnel carrier.
ZSU-23-4 SOV/DDR indoors.
USA, 1917 Ford Model T Ambulance, produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1 Oct 1908, to 26 May 1927.
USA, 1942 Buick Roadmaster automobile.