JANUARY 2012

January 2 - The General George Patton Museum of Leadership announced that 71,659 visitors from around the world visited the museum in 2011. The museum expects more visitors this year as new exhibits are opened.

FEBRUARY 2012

February 16 - General Patton's 1939 Cadillac Series 75 sedan is now on display at the 2012 Chicago Auto Show, the nation's largest and longest-running auto show. The photos below show the car being loaded onto a car hauler for transport and on display at the show.	The jack stands have been removed.
The museum's command car is used to tow the sedan to the loading area.	The car is slowly winched into the car hauler.
Inside the hauler, it is tied down for the trip to Chicago.	The sedan on opening day at the Chicago Auto Show.

February 17 - For years, the Richardson Motor Pool was the museum's restoration facility and home to the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's collection in storage. After the vehicles were removed to Fort Benning, the motor pool was slated for demolition at some point in the future. This left the present General George Patton Museum of Leadership without a proper work project and restoration facility so that any work had to be done in the closed-off areas of the museum. At last one bulding in the Potts Motor Pool became available and the post has assigned it to the Patton Museum as a workshop and restoration facility. Four vehicles, once on display outside the museum, have now been moved to the motor pool so that they can be cosmetically restored for display in the museum. Photos of the building are below.

Exterior view of Patton Museum work shop.	One room will be designated as a museum volunteer room.
A tool cage to properly secure shop tools is located next to the work bays.	One of several rooms that can be used for storage.
Another storage room.	The work bay area showing the museum's M10, M4A3/76 Sherman, M114 ASRV and M7B1 Priest which are undergoing cosmetic restoration to eventually become static displays in the museum.

February 24-26 - Programs Coordinator for the Patton Museum, Rick Dickerson, and several Patton Museum volunteers manned the museum's booth at the 2012 OVMS Show of Shows, a militaria collectors show, at the Kentucky Fairgrounds in Louisville, Kentucky. Pictured in the photo (l-r) are Rita Berry, Rick Dickerson and Robert Decker. During the show, they talked with visitors and handed out information about the new General George Patton Museum of Leadership.

MARCH 2012

March 10 - Several museum volunteers gathered at the JROTC event held at North Hardin High School in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The volunteers brought some of their collection of U.S. Army uniforms and equipment to show the JROTC students what items soldiers in the past carried and used.

Museum volunteers Duane Klug, as U.S. WWII soldier, and Kevin Reid, as U.S. WWI soldier, talked with JROTC students.	Volunteer Lyle Slaton discusses U.S. paratrooper equipment.
Volunteers Kevin Combs, as a WWII soldier, and Kevin Combs Jr., as a WWII resistance fighter, show equipment from their collection.	Volunteer James Goodall was present in his General Patton impression.
Just one of several displays of equipment and weapons.	Some of those that participated in this event. (l-r) Retired General William Barron, volunteers Jeff Berry and Kevin Reid, Kelly Barron, volunteers Rita Berry and Duane Klug.

March 12 - The Patton command van was removed from the Patton Museum to the restoration facility at Potts Motor Pool. Museum macro artifacts curator O.B. Edens was in charge of the move.

The Patton command van is winched on to roll back truck.

O.B. steers the van as it rolls off the truck at the motor pool.

The Patton command van is now at the motor pool where restoration can be resumed.