The Victory Show, one of the UK`s biggest wartime re-enactment shows, returned to Foxlands Farm in Cosby Leicestershire.
The event now in it's 19th year sees re-enactment and Living History groups from across the country meet at the farm just outside the village of Cosby in Leicestershire and has grown over the years to include an airshow, an area of woodland and more, alongside the main encampment to bring to life and give visitors an idea of combat in theatres of war in varied areas across the world.
My film gives viewers a look around the event and the various 'scenes' by the groups from engineers erecting a telephone system as a marching band passes, to a Jeep suspended from a crane !.
The action moves to the Battlefield where tanks, soldiers and all types of military hardware, including a flypast from a Lancaster Bomber, from the era recreate scenes seen across the globe during wartime, after the battle we are reminded that although this is a staged display battles like this where all too real for those brave men who fought for real and the last post is sounded and respects paid with a silence.
There`s more aircraft as we go on a flight line walkabout and get up close to the beautifully designed warbirds, there`s spitfire, shiny chromed american aircraft like Jersey Jerk, Curtiss P-36C and more, we end with the Douglas Dakota DC3 taking off on the grass runway, before we join the Hinckley Home Guard for a sing-a-long knees up down at the shelter.
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