Sept. 30 & Oct. 1 - Don't Miss The Fun!

World War II Days
Midway Village Museum, 6799 Guilford Road, Rockford, IL

Visitors to World War II Days engage in elaborate 1940s displays in historical buildings on the museum’s 148-acre campus, which becomes the back drop of a European village during World War II. This military re-enactment is known to be the largest in the Midwest and draws thousands of visitors yearly to the Rockford region and the museum grounds.

Festivities include encampments of Allied and Axis troops in the Midway Village woods. World War II Days includes elaborate and realistic battles complete with tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, and exciting pyrotechnic displays.

Uniformed re-enactors representing soldiers from the United States, Great Britain, France, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Italy, and Germany along with vintage tanks, half-tracks and other 1940s military vehicles make this a not-to-miss special event.

Saturday Events

• 10:00 AM EVENT OPEN
• 10:30 AM - Main Battle
• 11:00 AM Tom Gitter, WWII Veteran: Personal Experiences, Service, and Souvenirs
• 11:15 AM Medical Scenario
• 11:30 AM Andrew Sisters Concert - Sweet Reminders
• 12:00 PM Woods Skirmish
• 12:30 PM Gathering Oral History: WWII Veteran Don Bein’s Experiences, Presentation and Book Signing by Aidan & Ariah Quimby
• 1:00 PM Flying Demonstration at Main Battlfield
• 1:00 PM General Patton Briefing
• 1:30 PM Music of the 1940's - Nicole Kramas
• 1:30 PM Barbara Brown, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Guards, Policemen, and the Community with Goldie Pekarsky, My Father's Story: Holocaust Survivor
• 2:00 PM Cut Flower Sale Open
• 2:00 PM Main Battle
• 2:45 PM Medical Scenario
• 3:00 PM Woods Skirmish
• 3:00 PM Bob Carlson, The Pearl Harbor Attack: A Lasting Legacy
• 3:30 PM General Patton Briefing
• 4:00 PM Woods Skirmish
• 5:00 PM WWII DAYS CLOSES FOR THE DAY

Sunday Events

• 10:00 AM EVENT OPEN
• 11:00 AM Susan Schinleber, Antisemitism: Myths and Reality
• 11:30 AM Andrews Sisters Concert - Sweet Reminders
• 12:00 PM Woods Skirmish
• 12:30 PM Barbara Brown, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Guards, Policemen, and the Community with Goldie Pekarsky, My Father's Story: Holocaust Survivor
• 1:00 PM Flying Demonstration at Main Battlfield
• 1:00 PM General Patton Briefing
• 1:30 PM Music of the 1940's - Nicole Kramas
• 1:30 PM Bob Carlson, The Pearl Harbor Attack: A Lasting Legacy
• 2:00 PM Main Battle
• 2:45 PM Medical Scenario
• 3:00 PM Woods Skirmish
• 4:00 PM WWII DAYS CLOSES

Buy Tickets

New This Year

Five "woods skirmishes" will take place this year according to the following schedule. Note that for safety reasons in the compact woods area, there is a limited audience availability of 200 per woods skirmish. When you are booking your general admission ticket, you will be offered the option to choose ONE of the woods skirmishes to attend. Please note that each of the five woods skirmishes will follow a similar program - choose the one that suits your attendance schedule. Please visit the Woods Skirmish Ticket Booth to grab your color-coded raffle ticket for the battle. If you pre-purchased tickets, you’ll have to redeem them at the booth for a raffle ticket.

Saturday Battles / Skirmishes

10:30am - Main Battle
12pm - Woods Skirmish
2pm - Main Battle
3pm - Woods Skirmish
4pm - Woods Skirmish

Saturday Battles / Skirmishes

12pm - Woods Skirmish
2pm - Main Battle
3pm - Woods Skirmish

If there are no woods skirmishes available at the time of your booking, please check with staff when you arrive. There may be new availabilities at that time.

Military Vehicles To See (More to Come Soon)

• 1942 2G8T Ford Troop Truck
• 1942 Le. I.G.18 75 mm Assault Gun
• 1944 KdF Wagen
• 1943 BMW R74 Motorcycle with Sidecar
• 1943 Kubelwagen
• Daimler Dingo
• Multiple Truppen Fahrad Bicycles
• Panzer 1 Aus C
• 1945 Jagdpanzer 38t Hetzer Tank Destroyer
• Sd.Kfz. 251 Spw Armored Personnel Car
• 1942 Opel Blitz A
• Pak 40 75mm Anti-Tank Gun, 3-ton Period Truck
• M2 Halftrack
• 1942 Sd.Kfz. 231 8-wheeled German Armored Reconnaissance Car
• M3A1 Light "Stuart" Tank, 1942
• TKS Tankette
• Fiat 508/518 Gun Tractor
• 37 mm Bofors A/T Gun
• 1935 Ford Carryall
• M22 "Locust" Light Airborne Tank
• 1945 Willys-Overland 1/4 Ton Truck MB "Jeep"
• M16 Half-Truck
• M8 Light Armored Car "Greyhound"
• M5A1 Light "Stuart" Tank

This is a rain or shine event. No refunds.

Questions? Call 815-397-9112.