Wehrmacht on the Interstate

[beamjockey]

Coming home from Musecon Sunday night on Interstate 88, I was startled to find a large tractor-trailer in front of me, burdened with two sinister brown shapes.

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[dragonet2]

It never occurred to me that seeing Military vehicles on trucks would be odd, but then The Big Red One is west on I-70 not too far from here. The only thing i've ever seen that made me nervous was during Iraq 1, a flatbed trailer with a tarp over cargo, a loose, flapping part showed what looked like shells stacked onto the pallets.

I see so many that i would likely not have looked at the insignia, unless something really jumped out at me.

[jebra]

Ah! I'm pretty sure I saw these heading west on I-94 when I was heading home.

[shsilver]

My one encounter with tanks in the wild was driving along the A303 in Wiltshire. The roads there aren't particularly wide and are not designed for tanks going in one direction and cars going in the other. We were forced to back up quite a ways before we could get out of the way of the convoy of tanks coming at us.

[stickmaker]

Not long after the M1 Abrams was put into service, I was on US 60 on the west side of Frankfort, Kentucky. We have a major National Guard base there. Of course, Fort Knox is not all that far to the west of Frankfort, accessible from US 60. I looked out the front window of the little store I was in, and there went a deuce and a half, an M1 and another deuce and a half. And they were bookin'! (I could be wrong about the trucks; I was staring at the tank! ;-)

Don't know anything about the circumstances. Though you'd think if they were traveling between the Guard base and Fort Knox they'd have used a carrier for the over sixty mile trip.

[jeffreyab]

ITs not just the Americans there are German reenactors around the world: http://www.panzergrenadier.net/reenactment-groups-links.php

And other WWII reenactors: http://www.reenactor.net/forums/index.php?page=17

Its the SS groups that bother me.

To me the German groups should anly exist so the Allied reenactors have someone to shoot at.

There are reenactors for pretty much any time period I think.

[ext_1160982]

I couldn't find a link, but there are groups in Japan that reenact the Eastern front, even covering Toyotas with cardboard shells to resemble German & Russian vehicles.

[lonotter]

I'm uncomfortable broad-brushing them all as Nazi reenactors. From my contact with some of them as a vendor at one of the early Reenactor Fests, most definitely did not agree with Nazi ideologies. However, they did have reasons that they wanted to portray Wermacht/Luftwaffe staff/soldiers

[stickmaker]

This reminds me of a somewhat similar experience I had several years ago. As I came around a bend on my way to Lexington, KY - approaching Bluegrass Field - I saw something projecting above the surrounding terrain. It was the rounded top of the tail of an old aircraft. In fact, I said aloud "That looks like the tail of a WWII bomber."

As the road rose near the airport, I saw that it was a B-29. Beyond it was a B-25. The Confederate Air Force was in town.

Were you at the RiverCon where some of the GT folk went to the Patton Museum?

Not sure how this got in the wrong place the first time. I was distracted by problems with my Bluetooth mouse.