903rd Heavy Automotive Maintainance Btln
903rd Heavy Automotive Battalion
The 903rd HAMB represents the heavy pulling and armored power
of the United States during WW2
Based In the New Oxford are of Pennsylvania
The M 18 Hellcat you will be seeing this year is from a private collection in nearby PA.
For the last several years, the 903rd has been able to get a different heavy piece of equipment to us.
Anything from a DUKW to a Stuart / Kangaroo to Ward LaFrance wreckers, this outfit has it all
The 903rd is well known up and down the east coast. They have been asked by many historic venues to appear.
American Red Cross
A multiple level Display
Mr. Bob Buker has put together one of the largest collections of WW2 ARC artifacts. Everything from the usual band aids to comfort items, base ball gloves, show cards anything that related to a soldier or sailors needs.
The Field Post Office
At this event you will see one of the very few complete Field Post Offices as used by our forces in any theater of the war. Considering Between June 1942 and November 1945, over 1 billion V-mails were processed this was a common item in the field.
Only a Part of larger collection
For this year 2022, Mr. Buker has assembled Delaware specific items to show what our fore bears would have been exposed to and were doing to help the war effort.
Historic re Enactment Groups
45th Infantry
Under Construction
28th Infantry
More Information Coming
4th Mp ,
The 4thy MP is out Military Police presence. They do a n accurate presentation of the futies of peacetime as well as combat MPs. They even write parking tickets!!
Spam Time
Mr. Vince Turner has a very complete display involving music, news and entertainment of the period. He is a master of days ands and dates. Vince is seen at the reading Ww2 event regularly.
505th Parachute
Under Construction
82nd Airborne
Under Construction.
The 69th
This a new unit for us this year. More information coming as e get it.
The Paper Dolls
The paper Dolls is a group of women who portray the women of the 1940s in all their various roles. This means Rosie the Riveter up to a famer's wife or a seamstress. They have been regular visitors to this event.
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TBD
The Motor Pool
Members of the Motor Pool are a loose group of historic military vehicle owners (HMV). The group does parades, preserves HMVs as they were used by out fathers and grand fathers. The group considers itself stewards of these vehicles rather than the owners. The goal is to preserve the HMVs for future generations.