This is my assistant, and junk food connoisseur Glen, a.k.a. Woodstock.  Sorry ladies, he's married.

This is Joyce, a wonderfully nice lady from Florida. She was nice enough to sell me her late husband's registered MP43.  The tale if this wonderful firearm is as follows. The older of 2 brothers was in the 17th airborne in the ETO. He picked this up and sent it home, as a present to his younger brother, who registered it with the US government, just the way he was required to. He held on to it until his death several years ago. One of his sons, contacted a local relic dealer (probably one of the best sniffers in the Detroit area, who deserves a lifetime relic award) who contacted me.  And, now it has a new home in my relic room.  Yes, it shoots, please see below.

This is Steve, my friend, and my accountant. He claims that I can afford to let him shoot up my Kurz ammo.

My Niece, the Battleship champion of Christmas vacation!

Here is my buddy, Reefe, the big brother I never had, with our mutual friend, and WWII vet, Al Nemeth of the 307th Airborne Engineer Battalion of the All American 82nd Airborne Division. Al is always ready to do some butt kickin' in the name of the good old USA!

This is the Field Marshal AKA Jim. He was my second dad, and mentor in the world of militaria, junk hunting as he called it. I spent many thousands of hours @ his kitchen table (although not enough), listening to tales of the old days, mixed with advice on life.  He was an avid deer hunter. You should notice the original high turret K98 sniper rifle he used to blast deer. He died back in 99, and I miss him very much!

  Summer Vacation Militaria supports womans' beach volleyball!

This is my good friend Bill Combs, the world's leading authority on WWI and Spanish Civil War Militaria.  Well, maybe not the world's leading authority, but he is pretty darn knowledgeable about that stuff.  Check his website www.agmohio.com

This is my friend Larry; he collects flamethrowers. Larry is always looking for flamethrowers and flamethrower related militaria. The photo of him shooting the Original WWII flamethrower is from the Clarkston, Michigan WWII Days Military History event held the first weekend in June, just North of Detroit. Contact me for info regarding next year.

My buddy, E. Larry, garage sale scrounger extraordinaire,  taking a well deserved break.  

....brothers, both doing their duty....

Clp. Smith serving up bacon sannies for the Crown.    

 Some kids have all the best toys!!

This is Dale and Jane with their grand daughter; they don't dress like this every day.

WWII Italian reenacting is supported here!  This is an outstanding WWII Italian impression. Everything is original including an actual Italian person (of Italian origin). If you see this guy; buy him a beer, or better yet, a canteen cup of wine.

German WWII reenactors make any event more fun.  Brian (pictured at left) recommends not packing a fur hat and ripe banana in your bread bag during a tactical reenactment.

Summer Vacation Militaria reminds you summer party hounds to remember to drink responsibly, and try not to puke in your own shoes.

This is a photo of me in 1990 in front of the Colditz Castle, one of the most famous POW camps of WWII.

Here I am with a smiling (this is a smile in Russia) Soviet Army Captain in East Germany near Dresden.

Nobody knows, or digs German WWII swords like my buddy George!

Here I am with the birthday gift I bought for myself when I turned 40.  I always recommend full auto weapons as birthday gifts.

Ah summer time, let's hit the pool...or maybe the beach.

.....maybe just running through the sprinklers would be a better idea...

Sometimes summer vacation makes you tired.  might I suggest  a nap?

Big Mike has discovered something that Communism has produced that is worthwhile.

Mike doesn't have a bad attitude, it just looks like it.

My best friend Glen looks very convincing.

As the war progressed, the SS was forced to relax it's high standards for manpower.