Squidley
Company Commander
I recently had the pleasure of going to the Collings Foundation 2019 Battle for the Airfield.
This is a reenactor event, that features a bunch of running US WWII equipment (jeeps, stewarts, shermans, an achilles (ok, that one is not US), some faux german armor (PZKW III, Stug III (the one that was in an earlly BOB episode), halftracks, etc). It was an excellent day.
What made it even more amazing is that there is a new armor museum there that features the "Pony Tracks" collection from out west. When Jacques Littlefield passed, he gifted his collection to the collings folks, and they auctioned off enough to build a museum around what they wanted to keep. That means that there are more beautiful working pieces of armor there then you can imagine. And yes, WORKING is right. Not rusting hulks on a field like abredeen, but beautiful, fully running, afvs. I saw a Panther, Stug III (not a fake), T34/85, early T34 with the two hatches, and so much more here's a link to the museum, and a few pics of the day. They do some funny stuff with the lighting in the place, so the stug is not purple....it just looks that way sometimes!
https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/
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Sorry I didn't tell you guys about this beforehand.
Hoping to go back to the museum with my son soon.
This is a reenactor event, that features a bunch of running US WWII equipment (jeeps, stewarts, shermans, an achilles (ok, that one is not US), some faux german armor (PZKW III, Stug III (the one that was in an earlly BOB episode), halftracks, etc). It was an excellent day.
What made it even more amazing is that there is a new armor museum there that features the "Pony Tracks" collection from out west. When Jacques Littlefield passed, he gifted his collection to the collings folks, and they auctioned off enough to build a museum around what they wanted to keep. That means that there are more beautiful working pieces of armor there then you can imagine. And yes, WORKING is right. Not rusting hulks on a field like abredeen, but beautiful, fully running, afvs. I saw a Panther, Stug III (not a fake), T34/85, early T34 with the two hatches, and so much more here's a link to the museum, and a few pics of the day. They do some funny stuff with the lighting in the place, so the stug is not purple....it just looks that way sometimes!
https://www.americanheritagemuseum.org/
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Sorry I didn't tell you guys about this beforehand.
Hoping to go back to the museum with my son soon.
