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 ...

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' ...

Operation Cobra was the Allied breakout from Normandy — and this reenactment captured the intensity of that moment. Fighters moved through a fake village used by the U.S. Army, taking enemy supplies, ...

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 ...

CONNEAUT, Ohio (WOIO) - A Northeast Ohio township is once again preparing its town for the largest annual D-Day reenactment in the U.S. D-Day Conneaut is happening from Aug. 17 to Aug. 19 at Conneaut ...

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 ...

A WWII re-enactment at AuGlaize Village and Farm Museum on April 19-20 may interest history buffs, students and anyone interested in the time period. Here, re-enactors interact with visitors at the ...

HUDSON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Hudson restaurant is apologizing to its customers after several World War II reenactors ate a meal inside while dressed as German soldiers. Wearing military uniforms, 350 ...

Fornell, for years, has been a lead organizer of World War II Days, and was briefly president of the World War II Historical Reenactment Society, which has 1,200 members, primarily in the Midwest.

Fornell, for years, has been a lead organizer of World War II Days, and was briefly president of the World War II Historical Reenactment Society, which has 1,200 members, primarily in the Midwest.