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The "Browning M1917A1" machine gun produced during WWII did not meet the requirements of modern warfare, but it was excellent in the defensive role due to its great rate of sustained fire, and its pin- point accuracy.

Teamed with the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, the 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Division was in the first assault wave to hit the beaches at Normandy on D-Day. The division itself landed on Omaha Beach on the same day in the face of intense enemy fire.

On July 3rd 1944, the U.S. First Army initiated an attack near St. Lo. The battle was extremely difficult due to marshy ground with numerous shallow rivers and streams. The situation was complicated by the fact that the territory through which the G.I.s were advancing was crisscrossed with hedgerows. As a result, the U.S. forces suffered 40 thousand casualties in 17 exhausting days of combat. This kit includes 4 figures of U.S. soldiers being attacked by German troops. They are trying to pull out their wounded comrade by shooting back and using a smoke grenade as a screen.

temporarily out of stock

This kit consist of:
3 Field Gendarmes
3 Civilians
2 Guard Dogs
Traffic Control Room and Sentry Box

brief history:  In the course of battle, especially battles as hard as the fighting in the Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy pocket, supply officers did not always manage to deliver the required equipment and uniforms on time. For frontline soldiers on both sides, this meant scrounging necessities where they could be found. Both Russian and German soldiers wore captured clothing more often than not. Russian soldiers pointed out the excellent concealment given by the German camouflage jackets, while they rightly assumed that their cold-weather gear was better suited than the Germans’ to the harshness of the Russian winter.

A pivotal battle between the red army of Russian and Germans on the eastern front at Kursk during World War II in 1943

On September 17th 1944 the Allies began Operation Market Garden , an ambitious plan to capture and secure a corridor crossing the main rivers in German occupied Holland. The task of capturing the bridge over the Rhine fell to the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. The British drop was far from successful. Suffering from horrendous communications, they resorted to asking the locals for directions and other information.