The Red Devils - WGS miniatures

Os Red Devils, paraquedistas britânicos que combateram na Operação Overlord na Normandia e na Operação Market Garden na Holanda.

As figuras e viaturas são da Wargames-South.

The Red Devils, british paratroopers who fought in Operation Overlord in Normandy and Operation Market Garden in Netherlands.

Wargames-South figures and vehicles.

HMG and Bren Carrier 

 

1º pelotão - 1st platoon and Jeep with Service Trailer 

 

 2º pelotão - 2nd platoon with Jeep's

 

 3" mortars and Bedford MWD 15 cwt truck and Austin Tilly 10HP

 

The Parachute Regiment has its origins in the force set up by the British Army at the request of Winston Churchill. The UK was inspired in the creation of airborne forces (including the Parachute Regiment, Air Landing Regiments, and the Glider Pilot Regiment) by the example of the German Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjäger, which had a major role in the invasions of Norway, and the Low Countries, and a pivotal, if Pyrrhic, one in the invasion of Crete.
The UK's first airborne assault took place on 10 February 1941, when, what was then known as II Special Air Service (some 40 men of 500 trained in parachuting), introduced themselves to the enemy by jumping into Italy and blowing up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.
After the German's successful invasion of Crete, it was agreed by the British Chiefs of Staff that the UK would need far more paratroopers for similar operations. No. 2 Commando were tasked with specialising in airborne assault and became the nucleus of the Parachute Regiment.

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JF