Photos from WWII Days 2008, Rockford, IL

• Sep 30, 2008

• #1

indieflmkr

Familiar Face

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Hudson, WI

Here are some of the photos I took at the event this year:

http://public.fotki.com/mlif/re-enactment_photos/rockford-il/september-2008/

 

• Sep 30, 2008

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JRB

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Gilbertsville, PA

Nice photos, thanks for sharing. I took notice of all the round "mermite" cans in the field kitchen. I don't even see them for sale and I counted 5!
Jack

 

• Sep 30, 2008

• #3

carter

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That is simply an amazing event. I must try to get up there next year.
Thanks for sharing your photos. Great shots one and all. Below are some of my favorites. The mounted photos are just great.

 

• Sep 30, 2008

• #4

Dieter

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Santa Cruz, CA

Very impressive, and it looks like a fun time was had by all.
Incidentally, as impressive as the Kriegsmarine matrosen look, I'd really have more expected them to have been in a Coastal Artillery (Kunstenartillerie) impression, as opposed to their shoreleave/seafaring impression.
All in all, great stuff! :eusa_clap

 

• Oct 1, 2008

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Badluck Brody

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Whitewater WI

Good eye my friend!

You even got me in the large group formation of GIs during the safety and authenticity check...

Thanks.... Now after seeing my pic, I have to put a diet in full swing!!!

AAArgh!

 

• Oct 4, 2008

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russa11

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Massachusetts

very nice pictures. I wish they did something like that in New England

 

• Oct 6, 2008

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norton

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Illinois

You know, I've never been to that. But right now I'm sitting in my office looking out the window at the field the re-enactors use for parking and camping. After seeing these pictures I really have to go check it out next year.

 

• Oct 9, 2008

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Blackjack

One Too Many

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Crystal Lake, Il

I missed this even though I only live a half hour away. Are they doing it at Midway again next year? I see they have a "hanger" dance after, there is an absolutly great 40's retro band here that would be perfect for this event, anyone knows who sets all this up??

 

• Dec 16, 2009

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V.C. Brunswick

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Orange County, CA

carter said:

That is simply an amazing event. I must try to get up there next year.
Thanks for sharing your photos. Great shots one and all. Below are some of my favorites. The mounted photos are just great.

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Being new to this forum I was looking back through the "archives", as it were and came across your pics. I love the pic of the German horse-drawn goulaschkanone in action which contrasts with the image most people today have of the Wehrmacht with its wall-to-wall panzers. Many today do not realize that most of the major combatants of World War II, notably the French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian armies relied mainly on horse-drawn transport to tow the guns and deliver the supplies. Only the American and British Commonwealth armies were fully-mechanized.

I wonder if one of the Germans in the pics is somebody I used to chat with online a few years ago. He was (or still might be) a re-enactor with the 2nd Panzer Division group in Rockford.