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Old 08-21-2013, 07:58 PM
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Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio.  
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Up in Conneaut, Ohio up on Lake Erie they have an event where they do a simulated D-Day landing (I think Utah beach). Somewhere over 800 reenactors and 15,000 specatators. I uploaded some video I took of the battle. It was very impressive; first time I've ever made it up to this event.

D-Day Conneaut World War II Reenactment (Beach Battle Highlights) -- August 17, 2013 - YouTube

Just walking around in camps was impressive. Not a lot of heavy armor to be seen (a Sherman Tank was all) and some medium vehicles like troop carries, a half track, 10 wheel wrecker, a German 222 and tons of sidecar motorcycles). But very neat displays and camps.

And for the battle they flew over a P-51 Mustang and a B-25 bomber. The bomber pilot did a great job of making several low passes right over the beach head.

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Looks like fun, thank you for sharing.
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Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio.  
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Thanks; glad you like it! A few more pictures:







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Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio. Went to a pretty neat WWII Reenactment in Ohio.  
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Bombers and tanks? Like that's some serious re-enactment!
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Bombers and tanks? Like that's some serious re-enactment!
There's a couple of other events that have more armor at them, like Rockford IL last year had a German Hetzer, a STUG III, a half track, and a few other German armored vehicles... And the allies had a Sherman and probably a Stuart or two. Plus some neat German artillery pieces and such.

But this one had some amphibious landing craft that was pretty neat that I have never seen in person before. So that was really interesting.
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Some video from Rockford, IL since I think it is a fairly impressive event as well:

Rockford WWII Event 2012 -- Field Battle Footage - YouTube

Rockford WWII Event 2012 -- Town Battles Footage - YouTube
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