Four GI's defending their position against the surprise German onslaught. |
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BBA02 "Support Group" provides the platoon with extra fire power… a .30 cal machine gun is backed by a “bazooka guy” plus two additional riflemen. |
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Bastogne Brigadier McAuliffe’s immortal reply to the German demand for the town’s surrender. McAuliffe and his GI bodyguard confront two enemy officers.These figures are wearing a typical late-war, cold weather assortment of army great coats, 1943 field jackets, gloves and scarves… They are even partially covered in frost and snow… you almost feel the cold and see their icy breath!
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Skorzanys German troops dressed as US MP 's
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Three grey coat-clad GI's return from a fighting patrol ...with them a captured German prisoner.
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One of Otto Skorzeny's "imitation" American GI's faces a firing squad. Two rifle firing MPs take aim an army padre looks on. |
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75mm Airborne Pack Howitzer firing over open sights. 3 paratroopers - cold and hungry, man the gun. |
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A grizzled, 101st Airborne veteran of the battle greets a young replacement direct from the depot. Between them a "BASTOGNE" road sign. |
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Five Marines and one Navy Corpsman hoist "Old Glory" above the carnage of Iwo. Sadly only two of the Marines and the Navy Corpsman survived the battle. |
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