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 ...

Operation Cobra was the Allied breakout from Normandy — and this reenactment captured the intensity of that moment. Fighters ...

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' ...

For this year, some 140 reenactors from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and many other areas were headed to the village to take up roles as U.S., German, Russian, British and Italian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.