U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum, Huntsville, AL Videos

Pulling out for cleaning! Our 1944 Sexton 25lb. self propelled gun is in the final stages of restoration. Approximately 2000 of these were made and used extensively in the World War II European theater by the British and Canadians. It is a U.S. design and uses the Sherman Tank under carriage. Just listen to that 450 horsepower radial engine!

Our lineup for the 2017 Huntsville Veterans Day Parade

Loading the Stuart for the 2017 Huntsville Veterans Day Parade

Moving out for the 2017 Huntsville Veterans Day Parade

Moving out preparing for the Huntsville Veterans Day Parade

Ross Rich guides the museum's 1.5 ton G506 Chevrolet, "Daisy" back in to the museum after spending the day on display outside. This vehicle was donated to the museum by the family of WWII veteran Almon McGee after 70 years of loyal service to them on the farm.

Ross Rich drives the M8 Greyhound back into the museum. Brian Knox and William Cody Quick crew the vehicle. Robert McCoy, John Omenski, and Doug Dutcher look on.

Robert McCoy and crew move the museum's halftrack back into the museum.

Ross Rich and crewmen Brian Knox, William Cody Quick put the Stuart tank "Bama Bell" back in the barn. Robert McCoy spots and guides them into position.

Bob McCoy brings the M8 back into the barn after the Veterans Day parade.

Lined up for the 2016 Huntsville Veterans Day parade.

Seventy five years ago today, Ford Motor Company delivered two vehicles to Camp Holabird, Maryland. One was chosen to be tested as Ford's entrant into the competition to build what the world would come to know as the jeep. It wasn't the first and it didn't win; but of the original three pilot vehicles tested by the Army, it’s the only one that is still with us. And while it and its siblings were not chosen as the standard 1/4 ton truck of the Second World War, many of its features were incorporated into that standard vehicle 637,000 times over. So today we celebrate GP-N0 1, or as we know it, the Ford Pygmy. We celebrate the men of the Bantam Car Company from Butler, Pennsylvania, to whom the lion's share of the credit for the existence of this type of vehicle belongs. We celebrate the engineers and craftsmen at Ford who took that idea and made their version of it in a few short weeks. We celebrate the men in government and industry, who when the republic and indeed all the free world needed them, delivered. http://memorialmuseum.org/displays/military-jeeps/item/ford-pygmy