Most of the battle re-enactments around here feature guys with muskets, some in red coats, but Redsox223 watched a World War II battle re-enactment in Stow yesterday, put on by the Collings Foundation.
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We'd just gotten to Honey Pot Hill Orchards in Stow this afternoon (along with roughly 75% of the rest of greater Boston) and were trudging up one of the hills when, after low flyover by a biplane, World War II re-erupted nearby. It sounded like an ammo dump was blowing up.
Turns out German paratroopers were capturing a nearby airfield. I never realized this sleepy little hamlet was of such strategic importance - but, then, it is the gateway to the entire Nashoba Valley.
Alas, Snoopy was no match for the Luftwaffe and so was forced to flee over a nearby orchard:
Via Jay Fitzgerald, who heard the battle over the frontier in neutral Sudbury.
You're having a grand old time picking apples at Honey Pot Hill Orchard in Stow. Suddenly, you hear the whine of a propeller plane. It's pretty close. It gets closer - and louder. There, going into a dive, a fighter plane - with two torpedoes on its wings, coming right at you! What do you do? Duck? Scream? Then you remember, this is 2005. And the plane does a barrel roll right over your head. It comes back again and again, then suddenly disappears.
Only to be replaced by a fighter jet! Which also comes right at you and looks like it's out to get you, only it's way louder and meaner than the prop plane. After several passes, it, too, disappears. And then, over the treetops, can it be? Yes, it is TWO WW II bombers, lumbering upward and then around you. Thankfully, they do not disgorge their cargo on you.
According to the folks at the orchard, some rich guy in Stow owns a bunch of planes, and he sent them into the air to celebrate his son's wedding.
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