Are you looking for a unique, meaningful outing for Fathers Day? Do you or family members have a military history? Consider this event in Dixon, IL.
A remembrance of our “Greatest Generation” will be the focus of World War II Recreated, held Friday, June 19, through Sunday, June 21, 2015. The setting is Elks Page Park, 7883 S. Lowell Park Road, Dixon. Come Friday, June 19, for a sneak peek. Watch as authentic WWII camps are set up and armored vehicles arrive.
Below is a rare photograph taken from a Heinkel 111, near Shetland, England, in the North Sea. It shows a British Supermarine Stranraer flying boat.
Saturday hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday hours are 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. WWII veterans will be admitted at no charge. Individual admissions are $5 or $10 per car load.
W. Eugene Smith, on the island of Iwo Jima, photographed four U. S. Marines taking cover, as a Japanese bunker is destroyed nearby.
There also will be
- weapons and uniform demonstrations
- a battle simulation between United States and German troops
- a tribute to WWII veterans.
Throughout the event, Boy Scouts will sell refreshments.
After being attacked by a Japanese kamikaze suicide bomber, Navy seamen extinguish flames aboard the USS Saratoga on February 21, 1945.
