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A new battle campaign: Museum fights to stay at Fort Gordon
JOE HOTCHKISS, Augusta Chronicle
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1of6In this August 10, 2020, photo provided by Amy E. Tuschen and The Augusta Chronicle, Signal Corps personnel captured this Japanese flag from a communications outpost during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, near the end of World War II, now on display at the Fort Gordon Historical Museum, in Fort Gordon, Ga. (Amy E. Tuschen/Fort Gordon Historical Museum Society via AP)Amy E. Tuschen/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6In this Nov, 19, 2020, photo provided by Amy E. Tuschen and The Augusta Chronicle, is Adolf Hitler s telephone that was taken from his private library as Allied troops liberated Berlin in 1945, and it now belongs to the Fort Gordon Historical Museum, in Fort Gordon, Ga. (Amy E. Tuschen/Fort Gordon Historical Museum Society via AP)Amy E. Tuschen/APShow MoreShow Less
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A common U.S. Army combat order is to “secure the objective.”
That’s exactly what Fort Gordon s museum is fighting to do – to keep irreplaceable pieces of Signal Corps history from leaving Augusta forever.
The U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon officially closed in February with a casing ceremony held at the installation.
“The Army is making its decision in May or June,” said Amy Tuschen, executive director of the Fort Gordon Historical Museum Society. “They’re already packing everything up. By May or June, in the next 60 days max, they’re going to decide whether they’re going to keep the artifacts here.”
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(The Eagle-Tribune / courtesy photo) Grace Banker was chief operator of the U.S. Army Signal Corps women operators during World War I.
(Madeline Hughes / The Eagle-Tribune) Carolyn Timbie has joined the efforts of historians and lawmakers to recognize women who served as civilian members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I.
(Madeline Hughes / The Eagle-Tribune) Carolyn Timbie holds her grandmother Grace Banker s dog tags from World War 1. Banker and 222 other civilian members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps were not officially recognized as veterans until 1978.
(The Eagle-Tribune / courtesy photo) Grace Banker received this Distinguished Service Medal for her work in the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War I.