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SHAWN
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 Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:18 am
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largest ww2 armored battle reenactment! plenty of pics to be taken. another great event coming up here saturday and sunday for all of those in the midwest area. quite a few folks here at the forum live in the area, you dont want to miss this. our friends from KY are back... i believe i just saw some of you this past memorial day at PAM. (i hope that odd german fellow from the PAM comes up.) Das Reich will be back again, they are a fun group.
CCC thank you for your hard work.
check out the shchedule and list of participating afvs
www.yankeeairmuseum.or...battle.htm
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:37 pm
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Great looking lineup. Let's hope the good guys win.
www.yankeeairmuseum.or...ctions.htm
Maybe my libertarian tendencies have been on edge, but are these rules absolutely necessary? No coolers, no awnings, no tents...? FOD and aircraft are problems, but if it is the problem SAY IT OUT LOUD. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:39 pm
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Great looking lineup. Let's hope the good guys win.
www.yankeeairmuseum.or...ctions.htm
Maybe my libertarian tendencies have been on edge, but are these rules absolutely necessary? No coolers, no awnings, no tents...? FOD and aircraft are problems, but if it is the problem SAY IT OUT LOUD. |
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:53 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:18 am
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Are my eyes playing tricks or am I seeing the M5 'running' over that camo'd jeep?
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:59 am
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Actually, it was an M24 and an M5, followed by 2 more M5's and a Hetzer. I think the halftrack guys even took a run at it.
It was not a Jeep, it was a 1973 VW thing that was more rust than thing, For all you thing lovers, we took all the good stuff off it first, when it was all over, the Kuebelwagen guys picked all the brake parts and un bent wheels off it too.....
I'm not sure who liked it more, the crowd or the tank owners.....
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:46 am
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D-mn thats awesome!!! I would love to be there, and I would even more love for my sons to be there and see a bit of history, at least as close as possible to the real thing. I can see myself participateing even!!! Of course I'd have to be a mortarman laying some smoke, HE and WP on those Germans.
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SHAWN
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:02 am
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wow, what a minute! why does it have to be on the germans!!!! huh?
why do you have to bring smoke on the germans? (cant you just be like are own arty and shell us both)
hey chris, again great show! i thought i would let you know that that display of air support was awesome, even better than last years!! i was on the right side, and i got a free hair cut to boot, nice job around the ears by the way ace!!! he was close, could read his helmet insignia. we thought he had actually clipped the antennaes on that M3 that was along his path.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:37 am
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Here's a link to a couple of videos of the aircraft
(near the bottom of the page):
www.ontario-warbirds.c..._video.htm |
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