Milsurp After Hours

Well! The first attempt at a photo contest could have been better supported but for various reasons the interest wasn't there.
So, if at first you don't succeed, have another go.

RULES FOR THIS CONTEST ONLY
THEME: Any Image taken at a Military Museum, Air Show, Military Display, Reenactment, Military Anniversary or Memorial ( That should give EVERYONE a chance to enter! )

Starting today and lasting through Christmas to the end of the year.

Maximum of 5 images per member. ALL members may participate including Niner and myself.

Images can be uploaded using the site facility or an outside aid like Photobucket etc.,

The winner will be the entry with the most votes from the members of the forum.

Members do not have to enter images to be able to vote.

Entrants may post a brief (please!) description of the image if they wish.

Right! There is your task and the simple rules. Let's see the images guys

Here is one to start it off. It was taken at a reenactment at Ft. Morgan about ten years ago. Ft. Morgan was the larger of two forts guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay during the Civil War. Notice those granite steps were a 14 or 15 inch drop from one to another. I saw these women taking their time moving on this flight of steps, all hands on the one rail. Then I noticed the small child at the top.

Established June 8, 1944
Location 49°21′37″N 0°51′26″W / 49.36028°N 0.85722°W / 49.36028; -0.85722 near Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Designed by Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson. Markley Stevenson (landscaping)
Total burials 9,387
Unknown burials 307

Location Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, Saint-Lô, Vierville-sur-Mer, in France

My first of 5 entries.
Outboard engine on a B-24. (Just before I went for a ride in it..Wheeeeeeeee)

does this count ??????
Robert

Twin navy AA guns in front of Confederate Air Force Museum in Mesa, AZ. (2004)

Yes Robert - Re-enactment

Some guys will neglect to pay attention to uniform of the day orders in every outfit. Never fails. Or....maybe a couple guys from a Zouave unit got a transfer to an ordinary unit. Or......maybe the Zouave unit was so shot up that the replacements didn't have time to send home for some tailor made red costumes. Whatever. These guys seem to be having fun.

Reenactment at Ft. Morgan about the same year as the previous photo.

1813 and the indians won one. Ft. Mims on the frontier in Alabama. Upwards of 250 settlers were killed when the indians attacked. This play acting photo was taken on the actual ground where the real thing had taken place nearly two hundred years before.

A rather husky indian.....with what looks to be an un-indian like mustache and something green and fuzzy looking on the top of his head....... is about to part some soldier's hair. Notice the Ft. Mims sign on the right.....on the inside of the fort...just to remind people where they were I guess.

http://www.canerossi.us/ftmims/massacre.htm