Years of planning culminate in The Longest Day, the long-awaited invasion begins with the assault on the beaches of Normandy; D-Day 6th June 1944…
The longest day
Normandy, 6 June 1944. The Allies undertake the largest and most ambitious amphibious landings in history to return the fight to western Europe.
Re-create the turning point of the war, that allowed the Allies to gain a foothold in Europe and which was to set the stage for the Axis downfall.
This set contains:
- 2x LCVP landing craft
- 1x AT/Flak bunker
- 1x Coastal Defence bunker
- 2x German Pak 40 ATG (for inside the bunkers)
- Craters/shell holes
- Duplex Drive Sherman with lowered screens
- 32x plastic US Infantry
- 16x plastic German Grenadiers
- 2x MG 42 MMG teams
- 4x US Army casualties
- 2x US Engineers carrying Bangalore torpedoes
- 2x MMG sandbag emplacements
- Set of battlefield accessories
- 2m of barbed wire
Beachhead Assault!
Go ultimate, with the D-Day collector’s edition. Everything you could possibly want within this perfect battle set, to recreate your invasion of Europe this 75th D-Day anniversary.
Beachhead Assault! – D-Day collectors edition contains
- The Longest Day – D-Day battle-set
PLUS:
- Barbed Wire
- Shell holes and craters Resin
- Sandbag emplacement
- LCVP Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel – Higgins Boat
- US LCVP machine gun crew (metal)
- Sherman V Duplex Drive (lowered screens)
- US Generic Vehicle Decals
- Coastal Defence bunker (Italeri)
- German Heer 20mm flakvierling 38 AA-gun (1943-45)
- German Heer 81mm medium mortar team (1943-45)
- German Pioneer with Goliath
- Luftwaffe Field Division Flak 37
- Ruined Hamlet
- Dead Horses
- Dead Cows
- US Army 81mm medium mortar
- US Army FOO team
- US Army 30 Cal MMG team redeploying
- Panzernest
- 18 x German Grenadiers
- 6 x US Army Infantry Plastic Frame
Campaign D-Day Overlord
Tom Mecredy
Dan Hewitson