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WWII Tribute 2008

Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:51 am

Buckley Homestead WWII Reenactment - Lowell, IN May 3 - 4 2008
http://www.lakecountyparks.com/WWII%20General.htm

From Indiana Aviation Museum website:

Military Encampments:
U.S. Army Infantry with 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions
Polish Infantry (speaking Polish)
Canadian Infantry
British Infantry and Airborne
German 116th Panzer Division (speaking German)

Equipment:
German and American Tanks
German Panzerfaust (nicknamed "toilet plunger") and Panzershrek ("stovepipe")
German BMW motorcycles with sidecars
German halftrack
American M-1 Garan, Carbine, and .38 "Grease Gun"
Actor carrying "grease gun" portrays Frank Lillyman, first paratrooper to land on French soil
Much, Much More!

Aircraft Overhead:
1942 L-2 "Grasshopper" Spotter plane with D-Day markings flown by IAM
L-2 will search out enemy locations and report to Allied Command
Indiana Aviation Museum's 1945 P-51D "Mustang" with D-Day markings will do strafing passes to counter German armor. Upon victory, P-51 will do the famous "victory roll"
Possibly others

Battle:
"The Falaise Gap" which took place in France where Germans were defeated
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