Julius Lorentzson, along with several other members of the First Frontier Mechanized Cavalry, ship their vehicles for D-Day commemorations. The vehicles and their owners will participate in a variety of events including the Bantam Jeep Festival.

Julius Lorentzson spent about six hours on a ferry Saturday as he traveled 150 miles to Ouistreham, France, across the English Channel — a trip he has made every five years since 2004.

Among the passengers were hundreds of vehicles, one of which was his 1942 Ford General Purpose Willys Jeep.

“We get to retrace their steps 75 years ago,” said Lorentzson, 68, of Fairmont, W.Va., about a sense of the same feeling in 1944 when troops crossed the channel to liberate Europe.Julius Lorentzson was among First Frontier Mechanized Cavalry members who shipped their

The First Frontier Mechanized Cavalry will present a World War II encampment at the Bantam Jeep Festival, Friday through Sunday, at the Cooper's Lake Campground location.

Lorentzson, along with calvary members Bill Burruss and Eric Jarvis, put their jeeps into a shipping container in Baltimore April 23. The vehicles arrived May 28.

This is an excerpt from the Bantam Jeep Festival Guide. Pick up Wednesday's Butler Eagle to get the guide and read the full story.