The models consisted of a 1/8-scale M48A3 tank, a 1/5-scale T34/85 Soviet tank, and a 1/4-scale M60A1 battle tank. Instead, it is owned by a private American citizen, Jacques Littlefield of Portola Valley, California.Īs an economics student in the early 1970s at Stanford University, Littlefield followed his engineering interests and built three radio-controlled model tanks while working on his MBA degree. Let me know what you think in the comments.W hat may be the world’s largest collection of tanks and half-tracks, as well as other treaded vehicles and related artifacts, is not in the hands of any government branch or army office. I recommend you stop by, if only for the tanks, during your next trip to Arizona. For a museum that is so out of the way, they do a great job packing it with exhibits and keeping everything up to date. I didn’t have a lot of time here, but I did enjoy what I saw. There was a military ground and sea car/boat as well, which is funny as I now associate them with the duck tours in places like Seattle.Īlso, there are a few more memorials outside that you can view without paying the entrance fee to the museum, and of course, active military can visit free. There was also an old Russian tank that was used with civil disobedience it was pink and was intense to see. I was shocked by how many tanks there were, and how well they had been maintained for their age and for sitting in the hot desert.
Outside of the museum was about a dozen or so tanks from the time when General Patton was a leader. I was itching to get outside and see the tanks before it closed though, so that is where we went next. The people working at the museum were accommodating, and they talked to me about the area and its history in the short time I was there.
There was even a replica of General Patton himself. There was a display of the guns used in the war. There was a large map with the topography of the area and its elevations and an old army car. Like I said above, I did not have much time to see and interact with the exhibits before the museum closed, but I will say that I was very impressed with the amount of stuff they had on display in this small museum.
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