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Reich Crispies
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Finish Event. July 2009

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Comrades,

the event will take place on July 3-4, 2009 in Parola, Finland on the grounds of Tank Museum in Parola.

Mostly living history event with one small public battle on July 4.

Accommodation: tents on the grounds of the museum
Participation fee: 90€ including rent of rifle, some blank ammo and catering, as well as airport pickup (either Tampere or Helsinki)
Welcome are: Red Army, Finnish Army, German Army, including SS
Scenario: summer 1941, joint Finnish and German assault on Red Army positions
Participating hardware: T-26 tank in Finnish colours, 45 mm AT-gun on the Russian side

Additional features:
- possibility to get inside the tanks and take pictures
- possibility to visit warehouse of the museum
- possibility to fire live WWII Soviet and Finnish weapons for additional fee (TBA) in a firing range next to Parola.
- a small tent sauna on the shore of a lake next to the museum
- possibility to work with PAK and 45 mm AT-gun

For UK-based reeanctors, it is recommended to arrive on Friday July 3 in the afternoon and leave on Sunday July 5 in the afternoon/evening

Program for Sunday: rolling up camp and sightseeing in Hämeenlinna artillery museum.
There is also a good militaria shop next to the castle and the museum.

Enrollment: bair@bair-travels.com
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Who is organising this?
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This Event is nothing to do with Me or my Unit but we are made welcome and Bair will help me in my October event .Thank you to those who showed their support to me and the Stug Event but after a long talk with Bair on the phone he told me that this is in no way trying to steel my thunder from Stug training .
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Biar is a reenactor so this will be spot on for us. Will have to grovel to her indoors. :roll:
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andy85th wrote:Biar is a reenactor so this will be spot on for us. Will have to grovel to her indoors. :roll:
Yes sir that is true but there will be a lot of Mops at the event
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Just to let you guys Know the battle is Go Go Go we have the use of a T26 and a pak for this
Gun hire is 25€ plus ammo so look at 50€ . The Bunker is booked for those that are comming from Das Reich Just let me know
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Sounds like a great event, a pity that I don't have the money to make too many trips this year. :(
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I´m so looking forward to this one...
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Ah crabs, I should look at the event section more often!
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