ROCKFORD, Ill. (Tribune News Service) — Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. “It’s a costume, man,” one guy in an SS uniform told me. They were also here as educators, as ...
Operation Cobra was the Allied breakout from Normandy — and this reenactment captured the intensity of that moment. Fighters ...
This wasn’t a staged show for spectators—this was a full tactical WWII re-enactment with no script and no second chances. Our group pushed into a mock German-held village at sunrise, clearing ...
JACKSON TWP. – The reenactment group Venturing Crew 1944, the Fifth Rangers Company B, will be camped on the Jackson Center School grounds, 7756 Fulton Drive NW, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday by ...
For Silt locals Lucas and Ethan Villarreal, history isn’t just read — it’s lived. The two brothers with a passion for the past are breathing life into the stories of World War II through the immersive ...
Someone has to play the bad guy. Someone has to play the Nazi. Otherwise, how do you teach history? I heard this a lot. Whenever I would ask anyone portraying a German soldier at Rockford, Illinois' ...
According to a press release, the “Race to the Rhein” reenactment event is set to return from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, at the East side of Spanish Trail Park. The ...
D-Day Conneaut bills itself as the nations largest WWII reenactment and the world's biggest D-Day reenactment. Every August on a small Lake Erie beach in the far Northeastern Ohio city of Conneaut, an ...
German officers surrender to U.S. soldiers during the 2022 “Operation Anvil” World War II reenactment. Part history lesson, part pyrotechnic display and part an homage to military veterans, Operation ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- It was a day of history and remembrance in Elizabethtown during the seventh annual World War II reenactment. The reenactment was held at the Elizabethtown Nature Park on Ring ...
NOVO SELO TRAINING AREA, BULGARIA (April 23, 2023) – On 23 April, U.S. Army Soldiers from the Army Support Activity-Black Sea (ASA-Black Sea) stationed at Novo Selo Training Area (NSTA), along with ...
MUSKEGON, MI – A D-Day commemoration, including a swing dance with World War II attire and air-raid re-enactment, are planned once again at the USS LST 393 near downtown Muskegon. The World War II ...