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03-26-2006, 02:43 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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I attended a re-enactment on the future site of the Museum of the American G.I. in college station, tx. It was sweet. Tanks, armored vehicles, all kinds of small arms, FLAMETHROWER!, mortars being fired, it was wonderful. I'll let the pictures talk. Definitely one of the coolest things I have ever seen. The theme was the taking of the Siegfried line, so the battle was centered around the dragon's teeth.
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03-26-2006, 02:49 PM
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#2 | | Master of Ewes
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03-26-2006, 03:23 PM
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#3 | | He who does not skim
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03-26-2006, 03:36 PM
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#4 | | Master of Ewes
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03-26-2006, 05:19 PM
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03-26-2006, 05:23 PM
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#6 | | Minister of Whoopass
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03-26-2006, 09:33 PM
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__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group
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03-26-2006, 11:25 PM
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01-28-2007, 11:23 PM
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01-29-2007, 12:11 AM
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#10 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | Very cool. I wish I could attend the one that is going on in Bamberg, Germany right now. It is hosted by a German reenactment group. They are trying to accuracy in the capturing of the town. There are American reenactment groups attending. I only live about 45 min from Bamberg. If I had not been sick this weekend, I would have gone.
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01-30-2007, 10:07 PM
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Country: | Sounds cool. You are lucky living on the continent although I aim to try to get to an airshow held at Nambour in Queensland at some stage. Hopefully should see a few interesting aircraft and perhaps some jeeps and things. Although a lot of that stuff is more in Europe really and the bigger cities here like Brisbane and that... | |
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01-31-2007, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet  Very cool. I wish I could attend the one that is going on in Bamberg, Germany right now. It is hosted by a German reenactment group. They are trying to accuracy in the capturing of the town. There are American reenactment groups attending. I only live about 45 min from Bamberg. If I had not been sick this weekend, I would have gone. | They're doing it in the middle of winter? That's gotta be cold in Germany. And probably wet. On the plus side, it does give you impetutus to capture a couple of buildings to get out of the cold. Talk about your motivated troopers!
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01-31-2007, 10:40 AM
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#13 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Thanks for the well wishes. I am feeling much better, but I am afraid that I may have passed it on to my wife.
Yeah they reenact them all throughout the year here to commemorate the actual event in the most realisted conditions. You can even go to Bastogne and see a reenactment of specific events form the Battle of the Bulge. Obviously they can not reenact the whole thing but small parts of it and they do it in the snow just like it was back then.
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01-31-2007, 07:55 PM
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Country:  | Indeed - we've just come back from St. Petersburg and been part of an enormous re-construction of part of Operation Spark which was the offensive launched in January 1943 to lift the blockade of the city.
It was about -10 but there was a windchill which took it much lower. 
Ah, well not a problem - I had a makhorka zakurim as you can see and some hot black sugary tea in my chashka so I was fine. 
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02-01-2007, 09:38 AM
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#15 | | Der Crewchief
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