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The Hampton Roads Wartime Women, receiving a salute from Major General James Ring, adjutant general of the Virginia Army National Guard, during the 2024 Military Through the Ages pass-in-review ceremony, won the 2025 Military Through the Ages 1st place for Best Unit Impression in the Modern Category for their depiction of WACS operating in France in the summer of 1944, a month after the D-Day landing. Although women had served in limited capacities during previous conflicts, WWII saw the first truly significant steps toward women's equality in the US Armed Forces with the creation of the WACS, WAVES, SPARS and WASPS. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation photo.
2025 Military Through the Ages Best Unit Impressions
| RECOGNITION | UNIT NAME |
|---|---|
| Best Overall | |
| Visitor's Choice for Best Unit Overall | Ostvik Vikings, 984 |
| Re-enactor's Choice for Best Unit Overall | OSS DET 101, 1943-1944 |
| Cold Steel Category | |
| 1st Place | The Greek Phalanx, 500 B.C.E. |
| 2nd Place |
Das TeufelsAlpdrücken Fähnlein (The Devil’s Nightmare Regiment), 1529 |
| 3rd Place | La Belle Compagnie, 1418 |
| Black Powder Category | |
| 1st Place | American Forces, Hampton Roads, War of 1812, 1813 |
| 2nd Place | 42nd Royal Highland Reg’t, No. 3 Coy, 1815 |
| 3rd Place | 2nd Corps. Field Hospital, CSA, 1862-1863 |
| Modern Category | |
| 1st Place | Hampton Roads Wartime Women: A Living History Company, 1944 |
| 2nd Place | OSS DET 101, 1943-1944 |
| 3rd Place | MACV Recondo School, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, “Nha Trang, RVN,” 1968 |
The MAC-V Recondo School, received 3rd place for Best Unit Impression in the Modern Category for its representation of the MAC-V Recondo School - 5th Special Forces Group, Nha Trang, Republic of Vietnam, 1968. This long-range reconnaissance training school trained troops from every free world nation fighting in Vietnam. Its graduates conducted patrols and sensitive missions deep in denied enemy territory. Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation photo.