looking for a wwii airborne reenactment group

hey i have been looking for a almost a month now for a wwii airborne reenactment group in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, USA with no luck if anybody is in 1 or knows of one could please help me out i would appreciate it a lot thanks

 

Google this; WWII Reenacting Units and Organizations and go from there.

 

I went to one of those once. I had a friend that was doing WWII paratrooper re-enacting and he talked me into attending an event. It didn't go too well. I had some of the equipment and my friend and some of his associates lent me the rest of the gear. Showed up the morning of the event all decked out and was introduced to the First Sgt., a very overweight individual, with probably a 52" waist that couldn't be dropped with a cargo chute. First thing he told me was I needed to take my Jump Wings off, because new members weren't allowed to wear them until they had acquired all the necessary uniforms and equipment, they were certified as period correct and the unit leaders determine that you have an acceptable interpretation. I asked him, "How many jumps do you have First Sgt.?" He looked at me funny and said, "none, we don't actually parachute." I said, "well I've got 110 jumps and I'll wear my wings. I rate mine you actually don't." He stomped off mad. I actually got along well with most of the "snuffies" and was having a pretty decent time. I was sitting on my gear eating and talking with some of the other guys when another re-enactor came up wearing a chute on his way to giving a presentation to a group of people. I said, "dude, you've got your chute rigged wrong." He said, "really? this is the way I was shown." I showed him the propper way and he went off to give his presentation. After the presentation was over, one of the senior people came over to me and told me not to give advice to the other members. He had studied the subject for years to include looking at hundreds of period photos, and while modern chutes may be rigged one way, that's not how the T-7 is rigged. I said, "Whoa, we used to jump with a lot of foreign countries and some still use the T-7. I've jumped it twice, once from a C-47 and once from a C-123. We had go through the whole familiarization deal with that countries jumpmasters covering their aircraft and equipment before we could jump. I know how to rig that chute." I decided that I really didn't want to waste anymore time with these prima donnas and bid my friends farewell and left.

My advice to you would be, find a group and arrange to borrow your equipment before you spend much money. Attend at least a couple of events with them before committing. If possible fall in with more than one group so you can compare them. Make sure you get along with the guys in the group, including the leadership. Many times the leaders are the leaders because they started the group not because of any leadership ability or knowledge that they may or may not possess. If you do decide to join and don't already have one, start a fitness program. The real men deserve to be portrayed properly, fit and strong, not overweight and weak. Work on your military bearing. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. It's more than the correct uniforms and equipment that makes up an accurate impression.
One last thing, I attended the dedication of the "Airborne Walk" at Ft. Benning back in '86. I was priviledged to serve as an escort for some of these men for the event and got to meet a bunch of others, including a couple from the original test platoon. Great gentlemen! In their youth they truly were "Giants, striding the earth". Do them justice.

 

thanks for the advice and i plan on learning all the right stuff once i find some one who knows how to teach it correct i want to do everything right the people who actually did it deserve way more then that they are all such a big inspiration to me. one of the problems i have as well is i dont know anyone els who is in to wwii at all so i am trying to learn on my own so its really hard to learn things for me i wish i even had 1 friend to help me out with learing how to march and all that stuff to prepare for when i finding a group