Gates open at 8:30AM each day for the nation's largest and best known historic commemoration of the life and times of America's "Greatest Generation"..
RAIN or SHINE!

Meet, speak with, and collect autographs from many famous WWII personalities.
Click here for the 2008 Special Guest List.

Hear their stories presented daily on stage and in the briefing tent.

See more than 1,000 WWII military and civilian re-enactors and dozens of combat and support units, representing many nations.

See up to 200 military vehicles, from motorcycles to Jeeps to tanks - the biggest gathering in the country.   If you stay for the evening entertainment you will see a WWII AA searchlight in action, scouring the skies for raiders.

 Thrill to the thunder of tanks and artillery pieces being fired.

Witness battles and skirmishes between Allied and German troops around the French Village.

In the Pacific Theater, you'll witness Marines in combat with the Japanese and thrill to the recreation of the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi. 

Keep your head down!  American infantry and armor attack the Wehrmacht across open ground.

Watch military vehicles and military re-enactor units pass in review on Saturday & Sunday.

Stroll around the sprawling encampments and experience what life was like for the G.I. Joe's, Tommies, and Jerries in the field.  You can visit the Pacific Navy and Marine, European theater U.S. Army Infantry and Air Force, British Commonwealth forces, and German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe camps.

Explore the ruined, but still vibrant French Village.   But, Achtung!  You are in German territory!

See scores of beautifully restored WWII aircraft
– observation planes, trainers, utility planes, transports, fighters, & bombers.
2008 Scheduled Airshow Performers List

See all of these wonderful pieces of aviation history fly during the Saturday and Sunday airshows, from 1 PM – 4 PM.

Visit many authentic “Home Front” displays, including air raid wardens, a recreated '40's house, a cottage-style gas station and vintage cars, and a department store selling 1940's items.

Join the audience for a live radio broadcast drama at the recreated studio of station "WRDG".

Enjoy the fabulous ‘40’s Big Band concerts and dances Friday & Saturday evening, 7PM - 10PM.  Friday you'll swing to the "Let's Dance" big band, appearing ala Artie Shaw's USN Big Band.  On Saturday the Glenn Miller, USAAF style "Swing Fever" band will set your feet to tapping.
 See this NOTE for information on admission to attend the dance and/or evening meals, only.

You can take a nostalgic, once-in-a-lifetime ride on the B-17G Flying Fortress "Yankee Lady".
  Rides begin Tuesday, May 30, and continue through the close of the show Sunday. 
You can and should schedule in advance.   See the link below for details and prices.

Or for something a bit more sporty - fly aboard MAAM's beautiful SNJ Advanced or Stearman Primary Trainers.  These airplanes are the types that trained thousands of allied aviators during the war.
Click here for details on all WW2 Weekend Airplane Rides.

Laugh and interact with hilarious Abbott and Costello impersonators doing their famed "Who's On First?" routine.

As you stroll about the Pacific Theater, you may well encounter General Douglas MacArthur and his staff.  He'll be back again this year.  Just don't call him "Dugout Doug"!

See the latest progress on the restoration of the museum's P-61 'Black Widow'.   Drop a dollar in the bucket and help us make her the only one of her type in the air.

Try your hand at flying three of the the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum's aircraft at the MAAM-SIM flight simulator demo.   You can buy these award-winning flight simulator products to fly at home

Shop the extensive militaria flea market – 120 plus vendors make this one of the nation's largest.

Visit the O-Club where you can enjoy coffee and donuts in the morning, or sip a Coke while listening to the fabulous vocal stylings of Theresa Eaman.

Be here for Friday arrival day and get up-close looks of the operating military vehicles as the "Liberation of Reading" convoy moves out from the airport to the city center at 11:00.

Arrive early Sunday to attend the battlefield Church service conducted on the hood of a jeep at 9AM.  Sunday is a carbon copy of the Saturday show, ending at 5:00 PM

As debutted last year, the whole show has been re-oriented along the north-south runway giving, photographers unprecedented backgrounds and sun angles during the show.