How about a set or figures based on a short story by Bill Mauldin, called "Gone Goose". I remember reading it in "Boy's Life", back in the day.
It featured his characters Willie and Joe, and I think it was set somewhere on the Italian front, at Christmas 1944.
The story was that there was a farm in no man's land between the American and German lines, where a live goose was roaming. Both sides saw it at the same time, and a skirmish ensued as they tried to outflank each other and get the bird.
I think the Germans got the goose, but in a show of Christmas spirit, tossed a bottle of wine over to the Americans. The punchline of the story was that Willie or Joe mistook the bottle for a potato masher, threw himself on it to save his buddies, and shattered the bottle.
Makes a great little story.