Qualla: National Infantry Museum

National Infantry Museum: Introduction

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit D. Myles Cullen, Public domain. The dirt is the detail that stays with you. Inouye Field, the 2,100-seat graduation ground at the National Infantry Museum, is sprinkled with soil collected from the battlegrounds of Yorktown, Antietam, Soissons, Normandy, Corregidor, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Every newly minted infantry soldier who crosses that field walks on earth from every war the United States has ever fought. Named for Daniel Inouye, the Medal of Honor recipient who lost his arm charging a German machine gun nest in Italy, the field sets the tone for a museum that treats the infantry not as an abstraction but as the sum of individual soldiers making impossible choices in terrible places.

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Image: D. Myles Cullen | Public domain

National Infantry Museum: From Post Hospital to Purpose-Built

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit D. Myles Cullen, Public domain. Until 2008, the museum's collection was crammed into the former Fort Benning Post Hospital, where space and conditions were inadequate for preserving the artifacts of two and a half centuries of infantry warfare. In 1998, the National Infantry Foundation was formed as a 501(c)(3)...

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Image: D. Myles Cullen | Public domain

National Infantry Museum: Walking Through Every American War

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Meyerj, CC BY-SA 3.0. The galleries trace the American infantryman from the Revolution to the Global War on Terrorism. Interactive multimedia exhibits put visitors inside the decisions soldiers face. The Officer Candidate School Hall of Honor and the Ranger Hall of Fame preserve the names and stories ...

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National Infantry Museum: Patton's Quarters and the Company Street

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Markeith Horace, Public domain. World War II Company Street is a collection of seven buildings constructed at Fort Benning between 1940 and 1942, restored to their wartime appearance. A chapel, barracks, mess hall, orderly room, and supply room stand alongside the sleeping quarters and headquarters building use...

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National Infantry Museum: Memorials That Keep Counting

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center from Columbus, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0. The museum's memorial landscape keeps growing because the wars keep going. The Vietnam Memorial Plaza contains a three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Wall from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The Global War on Terrorism Memorial, dedicated in October 2017, includes th...

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Image: The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center from Columbus, GA, USA | CC BY 2.0