The history of
Oklahoma D-Day
The world's largest paintball event. A week at the Oklahoma D-Day Field, every year from 1996 through Current: armies of players, commanders on the radio, and a field built to be fought over. Dewayne Convirs started it. This is the record of all of it: who had command, who won, what got built, and how many made the trip, and the passion that built this legendary game.
01 · Relive it, or learn it
Relive the event.
For twenty-six years, Oklahoma D-Day was the legendary one: the paintball event you had to play, and the one everybody else wished they had. If you were there, your year is here, with the pictures and video that never made it online.
Then read how it came to be. Dewayne Convirs built a week-long invasion in the Oklahoma woods and ran it every year from 1996 to 2021. How he pulled it off, and why, is here in his own words.
02 · Attendance by year
How big it got, year by year
One count for every year the game was held, 1996 through 2021. Pick a year and open it.
Counts pending from Trevor's records
Players on site, by year · every year ran a week
03 · The field
Omaha Beach is still on the map.
So are Utah Beach, Brecourt Manor, Hamburger Hill, and Hell's Half Acre. Thirty-three named places on the trail map, with what was built there and when.
Topo and aerial · 500 yd scale
04 · Where to go
Three doors
Door 01 · The years
26 pages
Your year.
Commanders, who won, the paint sponsor, what was new, the pictures, and one or two videos.
05 · In a player's words
Sure do miss this and the planning and the families that was made bc of this event.
Gavin VonHeuvel · played it
He was talking about the work a week-long game takes, and the people he met who became like family.
06 · The letter
If you were there, it counts
Write what the week meant. Trevor reads every letter first. Dewayne gets the ones that belong. Those can go on the wall with your name.
A hard week still belongs. That includes getting hurt and still calling it the greatest weekend you played.
Sales pitches, spam, vulgarity, threats, and bad memories do not go up.
Tell Dewayne what it meant