MAAM WWII Weekend June 2019 Part 4
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When the last vehicle on the parade rolled by I resumed my stroll along Taxiway H and looked at some more of the re-enactors and their exhibits. It was impressive how many details could be find in the display areas!
It is fascinating to look at all of the items the participants have collected to help tell the story of the corner of the war they’re doing interpretation of. If you go to this event in the future take your time and let your eyes roam around the displays!
Looming large over the crowd was the very same Douglas C-47 “Skytrain” that I had seen in flight last month at the Army Heritage Days. It can be hard to imagine how big these planes really are until you encounter one!
Another food court is in this area as well as the flea market which is quite large and could easily be considered an event of its own! Most of the stands were selling items geared towards re-enactors which included replicas, artifacts, and other items to aid in interpreting their stories. There’s also many of the usual suspects in a flea market such as T shirts and other more general apparel intended to appeal to a wider audience. The brochure says there’s more than 120 vendors and that looked to be about right to me.
Turning around again I headed back in the general direction of where I started and encountered training aircraft on the left and some German re-enactors and exhibits on my right. There was an impressive number of displays here and the biggest concentration of tanks I saw.
There is a replica of a French village in which re-enactors provide interpretation of various stages of the war from this perspective. There is a lot to see in this area!
Moving along I encountered some live music from a 1940s era group playing stringed instruments.
Towards the end of my visit a Catalina PBY flying boat was being towed towards the runway area through the crowd with a “moving fence” of staffers holding a yellow line used to keep people and the aircraft safe.
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