The new Military History Hall opened on June 14, 1958, and was divided into two sections, one on the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and one on the United States Army. The exhibit showing the rise of the American Army opened with George Washington's actual field uniform from the great campaigns of the War for Independence. The exhibit displayed arms, equipment, and uniforms used by the United States Army from muskets to missiles. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. Number 63550	George Washington's Uniform in the Military History Exhibit, 1958
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