BG Daily News reports: With his beard, top hat and tall, thin stature, John Mansfield of Nashville looked every bit like Abraham Lincoln on Saturday. “When you look like this, people expect you to know about the president,” he said. Mansfield portrayed the 16th president at the L&N Depot and Historic Railpark & Train Museum during the Civil War sesquicentennial commemoration [...]
If I had known this on the other side of Veterans Day, I would have written about it then. But I didn’t, and it’s too good to wait another year so … Did you know that the Battle of the Argonne Forest was fought on the Mansfield square in 1921? Talk about a great inducement for closing that Park Avenue [...]
The War and Peace Show, held in Kent for 30 years, is going into battle with a new name and a new home in Hellfire Corner. After 25 years at the Hop Farm, the War and Peace Revival will be held at the Folkestone Racecourse site, near Hythe, between July 17 and 21 next year. Organiser Rex Cadman decided it [...]
Ross, Australia, was swamped by a cavalry of about 40 men and women dressed in full German, American and British military uniform yesterday. The rural Tasmanian town was used to re-enact a mid-1940s European village being reclaimed by the Allies from Germany during World War II. In town for the weekend’s Midlands Military Meet and Rendezvous at Campbell Town, Andrew [...]
The smell of spent gunpowder is in the air. Soldiers dressed in navy blue and butternut and gray scurry back to their units. Commanders discuss the results of the skirmish and account for wounded. They talk quietly amongst themselves how the attack will be better coordinated the next time the two sides meet again on the field. The Battle of [...]
It’s one of those subjects that still touches nerves nearly a century and a half later – in classroom discussions, in the conspicuous positioning of Confederate flags in public places, in the lyrics of classic rock ‘n’ roll songs from Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd. “I hope Neil Young will remember,” Lynyrd Skynyrd cranks it out. “Southern man don’t need [...]
Friday 5th October 7.00 Up for breakfast and then break camp 8.30 leave camp site for another wreath laying this time at Ospel memorial site, this is another memorial erected by a local family who were moved to do something in thanks for the 7th Armoreds sacrifices in the area. 9.30 short lecture by Niek Hendrix about the fighting around [...]
Tuesday 2nd October 7.00 start, packed all our gear and ate some of the rations. I had a WW2 Coleman twin burner petrol stove which we boiled water on for coffee and tea , before this trip the stove had never been used and was still in its dated and sealed cardboard box. Actually it was a shame to use [...]
Monday 1st October. Up 7.00 breakfast at 7.30 and broke camp by 8.30 Here are few shots of the mess area with the two GMCs backed up to each other with the cookers inside.Hot coffee and tea were on tap and water for washing your mess tins. We moved off deeper into the woods where we again met up with [...]
Sunday 30th September. Up at 7.00 for roll call then breakfast, all the meals were provided by the 2nd Armoreds own WW2 field kitchen for the whole trip and very good it was. Feeding 120 plus men is no undertaking with 2 hot meals each day. At 9.30 there was a talk by a local historian who told us about [...]
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