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 ...

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' ...

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

At this World War II re-enactment, history comes alive as Allied troops take on the dangerous task of hunting German armor.

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 ...

The annual World War II Weekend in Pennsylvania sees thousands of people descend on the city, including flamethrower expert, Charlie Hobson. The annual World War II Weekend in Reading, Pennsylvania, ...

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 ...

CRESTVIEW — "German troops seen near Spanish Trail Park in Crestview, Allied troops move to engage" is probably what a headline from the Northwest Florida Daily News would be if this were real.

MACOMB, IL - - The Western Illinois University History Department is hosting a live history exhibit focused on World War II on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18-19, at Veterans Park and the Macomb campus.

History will come to life as the Allies battle the Axis forces at the World War II Reenactment in Downtown Waxahachie. The event includes 200 living history participants in 1940s military and civilian ...

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.