European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Gulf War museum pieces by the new York times t he War in the persian Gulf ended just three months ago but some museums Are already collecting artefacts from the conflict. A. The naval museum for example has a display of articles taken from , including a. Republican guard Field jacket and helmet a Gas mask a a wooden Muslim prayer beads a pocket Koran and a. A package of four Sand coloured cookies wrapped in ,. Cellophane and imprinted with the Baker s name and. ,. Hometown Amman Jordan. A -. A -. The Marine corps museum has a display of american e and or Igi uniforms and weapon the . Air Force a a a a mum him i Wing he pal Torson fab in Dayton Ohio has a list Gill from the Gulf a the yellow coveralls of a a Ciller Rit Var. A m. A a a. The. a museum of american. History and a. A . Is collecting uniforms won by americans a a a a Yho lot Ghl in the War and Hopes o get those worn by. Specialist Melissa Rathbun no Ealy and maj. Rhonda l. Corn urn of the army the nations first combat prisoners of War. \. C collection already has the fatigue jacket Thal Barbara Bush wore at thanksgiving dinner in. A the saudi desert y. i. V Tkv a a Quot us no custom made As Nancy Reagan would have a a worn said Margaret Vining a specialist. In the museum s it Litany history department. Quot it Routar Issue just a plam. Right out of the a a a a. / to Quot collecting uniforms and weapons is nothing new the smithsonian for example displays George Washington s dress uniform and rockets used More iharv200 years ago Quot. M India and China. A. A Quot a a a. Sci a .,.1 a but the museum of american history include worn by men and women from All brandies and a. A a a Sas Ken George Barbara Bush a thanksgiving dinner jacket now belongs to the smithsonian institution. Echelons of the armed forces Quot if you had come into this museum in 1960, it was. Essentially a White elitist Story Quot said or. De Ezell curator a for the museum s military history department Quot we have i. Tried to convey that this is a much More complicated a much different Story. Just As we have George Kukk. A Washington s uniform we want to have uniforms of a 7 sergeant a tank unit Quot. A Kkt pm Quot a Quot air Force museum the curator Jack Hilliard is More interested in the weapons used in the Gulf War. Quot one of those a-1 of would be really Nice to have for our collection arid we d also be interested in an iraqi tank that took a severe hit from a Maverick missile but was t a total wreck a Hilliard said. Quot i d like to have something that shows a this is what we did to them a / a a the smithsonian s National air and space museum k already displays photographs in its main halt of the major air planes and missiles used in the War and a a a vide screen that shows missiles and planes in action. 1 Frank Winter curator at the. Museum,.said he would like to acquire scud and Patriot missiles which he called a the. Most famous pieces of equipment from the Ward. A d the artefacts that have the Best Chance of making it to museums Are those Tike of cookies at the naval museum donated by a military historian capt. A a Michael d. Roberts of the naval Reserve. A a a a a d. Roberts a doctor in the medical Reserve corps. Was. Assigned to document medical care in tie desert and 1 spent several months in saudi Arabia and Kuwait taking photographs and notes and foraging . A we had a pickup truck and we selectively just tried to pick up medical items Quot he did no to really have much Quot he added referring to the iraqis Quot they did t. Have Nuch in the Way. Of chemical warfare suits. They did have some a a. of the artefacts came from uniforms discarded by at a military base in the saudi desert near the Border with Kuwait. 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