MG William L. Freeman, Jr.
The Adjutant General
State of Mississippi

The Nineteenth Century Conflicts gallery exhibits cover the War of 1812, Mexican War, American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.

The World War I Gallery contains exhibits explaining how the United States entered the war, the establishment of Camp Shelby, and artifacts from the war at sea, in the air and on land.

In this gallery the immense scope of World War II is presented to the visitor in chronological order and includes the following exhibits plus many more: Activation and expansion of Camp Shelby, Pearl Harbor and the Fall of the Philippines, Women in World War II, Nazism, German Prisoner of War Camps in Mississippi, etc.

The Korean Conflict Gallery features special exhibits about the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir, Mig Alley and the US Air Force in Korea and weapons and equipment of the Korean Conflict.

This gallery traces the Vietnam from its origins in the 1950s to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Exhibits feature weapons and equipment, a life-sized diorama of a medical evacuation scene and prisoner of war cell from the infamous Hanoi Hilton.

This exhibit will trace the terrorist threat
to the United States from the first attack on the World Trade Center, attack on the USS Cole and American embassies in Africa through September 11, 2001, defeat of the Taliban, and war in Iraq.

The Medal of Honor exhibits are housed separately in a copper skinned tower in the museum’s central courtyard. Displays honor Mississippi’s 26 Medal of Honor recipients and 44 Medal of Honor recipients that served or trained at Camp Shelby since 1917.

The exhibits presented within the Armed Forces Museum trace Mississippi’s role, both it’s veterans and training facilities, in the defense of the United States from the War of 1812 to the present.