Museum of Missouri Military History

06/19/2026

Museum staff member Zane Peterman and summer intern Granite Miles re-working a pressure mount the old colors of the 735th Maintenance Battalion. A pressure mount helps keep flat a flag or guidon using pressure applied when the cotton muslin backing is screwed into the frame. The covering is Plexiglas. We avoid using glass just in case the glass would break the sharp shards will not cut the flag or guidon.

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

We are closed today. We will re-open tomorrow at 10AM.

06/19/2026

Museum staff member Doug Sheley has been working diligently digitizing a very large collection of WWI photos and documents. Way to go!

06/18/2026

We will be closed tomorrow Friday 19 June. We will re-open Saturday at 10AM to 4PM.

06/18/2026

Great photo of a Missouri Company B 35th Tank Company Soldier training with a M1919 air-cooled machine gun at Camp/Fort Lewis Washington in 1941.
Photo from the Worley E. Phipps collection

06/18/2026

Good morning

06/18/2026

Great angled upper photo of a line of M2E2 light tanks with the 194th Tank Battalion that had members of the 35th Tank Company Missouri National Guard.

06/17/2026

Staff of the museum were pleased to participate in the Voices of Valor: Honoring Veterans, the VA Tradition, and 250 Years of a Nation event at the Harry S. Truman Veterans Administration Hospital. We met many Veterans that enjoyed the museums display and sharing stories.

06/17/2026

Nice front view photo of the M2E2 light tank affectionately nicknamed 'Mae West'. This type was allocated to the 194th Tank Battalion prior to WWII. The 194th had members of Missouri's Company B 35th Tank Company from St. Joseph, MO.
Photo from the Worley E. Phipps collection.
Trivia- who was Mae West?