Arnhem Thread! (1 Viewer)

[arnhem44mad]

How about some paras 'Before the Drop'?

With parachutes and bags in hand, or loading up weapons and supplies?
Would make for a great Air Field diorama with the new RAF figures!

Pras on ground with parachutes in heaps beside them, or carrying those drop cannisters?

Also would like to see a model of this truck done by King and Country for 30 Corps:

 

[arnhem44mad]

This truck!

 

[IONA]

That would be a cracker to make mate same with the jeeps with the canvas tops
Regards Scott

 

[craig1985taylor]

That would be a cracker to make mate same with the jeeps with the canvas tops
Regards Scott

Yeap that morris truck would be a nice addition & i agree with Scott we definitely need a jeep with the canvas roof up!!!

Craig

 

[arnhem44mad]

Yeap that morris truck would be a nice addition & i agree with Scott we definitely need a jeep with the canvas roof up!!!

Craig

Amen to that!p

 

[uksubs]

This truck!

The 25 pounder gun was not used at Market garden but used on Operation Varsity

 

[arnhem44mad]

The 25 pounder gun was not used at Market garden but used on Operation Varsity

Yes it was!

That's what gave 30 Corps the chance to advance up the narrow road first time!

 

[uksubs]

Yes it was!

That's what gave 30 Corps the chance to advance up the narrow road first time!

The 25 pounder gun was used by the British army from 1939 but was only used by the British paras on Operation Varsity

 

[Phantom Warrior]

are you guys talking at cross purposes? The paras at Arnhem did not have a 25 pdr but the British 30 Corps spearheading the British 2nd army advancing from the south up a single road to relive first the American airborne at the Eindhoven and Nijmegen bridges and then Arnhem did have a 25 pdr.

Terry

 

[arnhem44mad]

Take a look at this link:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market-Garden

Some good pics!

Check this guy with kilt on!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_men_beside_a_jeep.jpg

Now that would be a good set!

Or this war correspondant:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:War_correspondent_typing_his_despatch.jpg

They died so that we could live, I think his sacrifice should be shown by a blown up tank piece, and maybe a tank commander pulling another tank crewman from the hatch?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dead_soldier_on_tank.jpg

A couple of shermans including a fire fly!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sherman_Firefly_tank_of_the_Irish_Guards_Group.jpg

 

[JPB]

We still could need a glider...