The city of Elizabethtown shook Friday night and at times on Saturday from a world-wide premiere event for military re-enactments.
World War II re-enactors took to the field at the Elizabethtown Nature Park and with it, the last fully operational German Tiger tank, which had its premiere firing Friday night, organizer Larry Vance said.
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