British Paratroopers ‘Rigid Landing’ (Arnhem 1944) 4820113082795

British Paratroopers ‘Rigid Landing’ (Arnhem 1944) 4820113082795No airborne operation has ever been carried out without casualties during landing. Operation Market Garden was no exception. There were numerous breaks and sprains amongst the Paratroopers and gliderborne troops. This kit contains the figures of 2 British Paratroopers aiding a wounded comrade, and, for the first time in plastic, the figure of a British glider pilot.

The JS 2 was a formidable foe

The battle was extremely difficult due to marshy ground with numerous shallow rivers and streams

Panzerwerfer 42auf Maultier

this meant scrounging necessities where they could be found

This kit includes the figures of 4 soldiers

‘German motorcycle

Army Groups “North”

which were often used as improvised furniture by the troops

while they rightly assumed that their cold-weather gear was better suited than the Germans’ to the harshness of the Russian winter

forces suffered 40 thousand casualties in 17 exhausting days of combat

Panzergrenadier units were entitled Schützen units

The nature of the fighting along the Frontier in 1941 was one of fierce Russian counterattacks