American Legion Post 22

American Legion Post 22 is in Clarksville, Ar. and is situated next to Cedar Creek. To get there you turn off of Hwy 64 in downtown Clarksville South of the Bridge and across from a motorcycle shop, you go up a hill and cross over a pedestrian bycycle trail to get to Legion Island. This is the coolest Legion Post I've ever seen.

Cedar Creek is just past the trees in the background of the picture above.

Above is an old Anti Tank Gun, I think it may be a M3A1-37mm anti-tank gun, circa 1941.

This is Cedar Creek which flows along side Post 22.

Artillery in Russellville, Arkansas

This piece of Artillery sits in front of the VFW on Hwy & North, Russellville, Ark.
There are a couple of Ship Anchors in front of the gun and a memorial plaque in the rear near the flag. I'm not sure what size or type of artillery this is.

M-41 Walker Bulldog Tank and the Civil War

I found this in Greenwood, Ar. Nice tank, but no plaque, it was in front of the local VFW.

M-41 Walker Bulldog (if I'm not mistaken). I found the site below which shows that the above tank is an M-41 Walker Bulldog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M41_Walker_Bulldog It was a replacement for the M-24 Chaffee Light Tank.

I knew from what little knowledge I have that the Chaffee Tank was a light tank and it and Camp Chaffee were named after Major General Adna R. Chaffee Jr., a World War One General who advocated the use of tanks. Below is a picture I found of an M-24 Chaffee Light Tank. The tanks do resemble each other.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/m-24-chaffee-light-tank.htm

I guess it would help if I mentioned that Greenwood borders Fort Chaffee. Fort Chaffee which was first named Camp Chaffee. The name change came in 1956. I was born in Camp Chaffee in 1952.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Chaffee

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/215612/

Across the street in the city square was this plaque. This was all there was, I suppose it is in memory of a Senator or something that was also in the Civil War. This is something I found about the area.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3595
Heres another site mentioning W.B.W. Heartsill http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Heartsill,W.B.W.html .

Arkansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The memorial is at the State Capital in Little Rock.

A school mate.

http://www.scguard.com/museum/docs/vietnam/1969/September1969.pdf

Arkansas Medal of Honor Recipient Memorial

Below are some picture froms the Memorial at thte State Capital.
http://www.sosweb.state.ar.us/virtual_tour_02/popups/grounds/medalofhonor/medalofhonor_details.html

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/states/ar.html

Here is a list of Native American MOH recipients (not neccessarily from Arkansas, I just like this kind of info).
http://www.homeofheroes.com/e-books/mohE_indian/list.html

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park

Of course this is at Prairie Grove, Ar. I did'nt go all the way around on the driving trail, it was a really dusty limestone gravel road and I was on my motorcycle.
I'll let most of the pics below talk for themselves and heres a few links.
http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/prairiegrovebattlefield/
http://travel.webshots.com/album/558930214wUsmDV
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/ar/parks/prair_gr.htm


Bronze Cannon.








The Morrow House



An old house on the property.

Siloam Springs Self Propelled Howitzer

Motor Carriage M55 8-inch self-propelled howitzer (WWII), on display in front of VFW Hall along Hwy 62 in Lincoln, Ar.