Greetings From Colorado

Franco · #1 (**permalink**) July 4th, 2009, 07:59 PM

Hello my name is Franco and just stoped in to introduce myself and joined up on this site to get more info about WWII and me some new ppl.

Slipdigit · #2 (**permalink**) July 4th, 2009, 08:58 PM

Howdy Franco, from Colorado, good to have you here.

Skipper · #3 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 08:44 PM

Welcome Franco, nice to have you with us here

A-58 · #4 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 09:05 PM

Come on in, take a seat and learn some things, and share what you know as well. It's a great place to waste time....

There's a few others from Colorado here, not me, but others. Do you ski or snowboard?

dgmitchell · #5 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 09:33 PM

Hello Franco! Welcome to this fine place. I hope you will jump right in to the discussion!

Cheers!

jemimas_special2 · #6 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 09:50 PM

Franco,

Man, I thought I was the only one! Greetings from Littleton CO

Mark

A-58 · #7 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jemimas_special2

Franco,

Man, I thought I was the only one! Greetings from Littleton CO

Mark

I think that there were a couple more, but they got DD'd....

jemimas_special2 · #8 (**permalink**) July 5th, 2009, 10:30 PM

Thanks Bobby,

It's good to see folk from your state that share the same likeness

Franco is the first that I've seen... hopefully more will come. Hope all is well, and good to hear from ya

Mark

Franco · #9 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 02:38 AM

Nice to meet you guys and i live in Fort Collins and i know alot of WWII stuff but theres always more to learn and do any of you guys fly any FlightSim games? I mostly fly IL2 1946 and i fly some on FSX

robbielynne · #10 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 04:36 AM

Hi there Franco and welcome to the forums..you will love it here..

Franco · #11 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 05:03 AM

Thanks and i already do love it here, lots of info

Calyph · #12 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 07:49 AM

Hey Franco! I just joined as well, I'm living in Fountain but go to CSU. There's a lot of WWII living history activity really getting into gear out here now. Are you in any reenacting groups or the MVCC by any chance?

Franco · #13 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 02:21 PM

Im not sure what MVCC is and i didnt even know there was reenacting groups around and did you by any chance get to the airport over here this weekend to see the bombers?

PzJgr · #14 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 03:20 PM

Howdy Franco and welcome to the forum. Glad to have you with us. Happy posting.

fast1 · #15 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 03:29 PM

hi and welcome!

Calyph · #16 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 04:46 PM

MVCC = Military Vehicle Collectors of Colorado. Wasn't sure if you had a tank or something

Colorado has had a pretty rough time with reenacting, and there's probably about 10-15 separate groups that used to all have some sort of beef with each other. That's starting to fade away, and now we're starting to get together more for events. I reenact 9th ID with my dad, here's our website:
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There's also 10th Mountain, 327 Glider, we have a 506th in our group, but that's only one guy right now, and some MVCC guys are starting to express interest in the tactical stuff. If you want to join in, I can add you to the email roster.

Oh, and I didn't get to the airport, I was at a 4th of July parade. Saw a B-25 fly over though.

jemimas_special2 · #17 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 04:54 PM

Calyph,

Great website! No idea this happend in CO. Guess I better get my gear in line

Would love to be a part of this someday.

Mark

Calyph · #18 (**permalink**) July 6th, 2009, 06:08 PM

Mark, if you message me your email, I can get you on the roster and you can get all the info. Our next big thing for the 9th is in Wyoming, but I'm pretty sure the registration stuff was due a while back. After that, we have a parade and public battle in Cripple Creek in early August. This is shaping up to be a pretty big deal, and we'd love to have 2 more members. There's also a non-public tactical up in Wilkerson Pass in late August. There's a lot of stuff picking up in Colorado, and by next summer, we should be huge. Do either of you guys have enough gear to do a reenactment? If not, the "veterans" probably have enough gear to outfit an entire company, just let us know.

Nate

Franco · #19 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2009, 01:47 AM

I would love to gear up and reenact that would be fun but i have no WWII gear and is there any fees or anything like that? And there was no B-25 this year over here it was a B-17 and a B-24 also a 2 seater P-51. I went over to the airport and was there all day and took tons of pics and watched them take off and what cool is that B-24 is the only one flying in the world. I cant pm you for some reason so can you messege me and i can respond with my email? Is there any videos of you guys or pictures reenacting?

LRusso216 · #20 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2009, 03:12 AM

Welcome to the forum, Franco. Can you post some of the pictures that you took? We'd love to see them.

Franco · #21 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2009, 05:33 AM

Yeah i can but where is the best place for it?

dgmitchell · #22 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2009, 05:50 AM

Franco -- You can post the photos in World War II Today. That is a likely location for them!

Franco · #23 (**permalink**) July 7th, 2009, 06:13 AM

Ok i can do that here they are B-17 & B-24 & P-51 Pics From Show

Calyph · #24 (**permalink**) July 11th, 2009, 06:15 AM

Sent you a message with my email, look forward to hearing from you!