Thousands of military artifacts are on display this weekend at the Evansville National Guard Armory.
Neil Johnson, who coordinated the show says, "It really is an interpretive museum. It's a place you can come with your family and learn about military items."
Items like a 1943 war jeep, which took Sonny Hall and some of his friends three years to restore.
"The floor was rusted out of it, the windshield was smashed, and the frame was broken off the back wheels," says Hall.
This weekend you can touch it along with thousands of other pieces of World War II history.
One of the key exhibits will be the Knight Collection, the world's largest privately owned collection of Pearl Harbor artifacts.
Johnson says there will be, "Pieces of Japanese planes, pieces of Japanese parachutes and other things that were brought up from the U-S-S Virginia."
Johnson says military vehicles like weapons carriers and war jeeps will be lined up. There will be some war re-enactors dressed up in military garb, as well.
It's all put on by the Evansville Military Collectors Club, the only one of it's kind in the Tri-State.
Members say it's worth putting these shows on to keep history alive.
"We need to remember the sacrifices of our WWI veterans, who are all gone, our WWII vets who are dying at a very fast pace, and those from Vietnam now," says Johnson.
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