FSSF/ Ranger “Devil’s Brigade” Platoon
- The 1st Special Service Force, The Devil’s Brigade, was a joint World War II American-Canadian commando unit organized in 1942
- The brigade fought in the Aleutian Islands, Italy, and southern France and many modern American and Canadian Special Forces units trace their heritage to this unit
- The Germans dubbed them the “Devil’s Brigade”, because they used a trademark sticker depicting the FSSF unit patch together with a slogan written in German: “Das dicke Ende kommt noch“, (The worst is yet to come), and left them on German corpses and fortifications they raided
- Contains 11x Infantry Teams
Fire Direction Center (FDC) Objective Marker
- Adding the Fire Direction Centre to your force allows you to make use of the incredible fire power that is available to the American Army
- A Fire Direction Center (FDC) quickly consolidates the fires of heavy and light weapons in order to unleash a truly heavy bombardment upon a known target. Located with the corps or divisional big guns, they also coordinate the fires of non-artillery weapons into the overall fire support plan
- Contains 1x Fire Direction Centre
M1 Bofors 40mm AAA Platoon
- With little threat from the Luftwaffe only high value Fifth Army assets were vulnerable to air attack
- The M1 Bofors AA guns would be found behind the lines near the big guns in the artillery or protecting the supply depots and ports
- Contains 2x M1 Bofors Teams
M17 Whiz-Bang
- The 7.2-inch Multiple Rocket Launcher M17 was designed to be mounted on the M4 Sherman series of medium tanks
- Intended for use against concrete bunkers and other fortifications, the payload of twenty rockets were fired electronically either as a salvo or individually
- Contains 1x M17 Whiz-Bang rocket launcher
T19 105mm HMC
- The T19 Howitzer Motor Carriage was introduced in January 1942 and soon saw service in November taking part in Operation Torch against French forces in Algeria
- The M2A1 105mm howitzer was mounted on an M3 Halftrack with the howitzer was mounted directly behind the driver’s compartment.
- The 105mm was the largest weapon to be mounted on the M3 halftrack chassis
- Contains 1x T19 (105mm) or T30 (75mm) HMC
T8E1 Turretless Stuart
- This kit contains enough pieces to convert up to five T8E1 Turretless Stuarts
- Requires plastic M5 Stuarts to complete assembly of final model
- Contains 5x gun rings, .50 cal MGs, .50 cal Gunners
Warriors of the Italy Campaign
- Warriors of the Italy Campaign pack provide the perfect opportunity to make a truly epic command stand that really stands out among your troops
- This pack includes several Warriors from Cassino, including German, British, Canadian, Nisei, Kiwi, Polish and Indian as well as some generic command figures to represent the other Warriors from their respective Command Card packs
