"German Tactical Assault Glider DFS 230 B-1 ..." Topic
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Tango01  | 09 Jun 2018 9:05 p.m. PST |
…w/ 4 Fallschirmjäger "The heavy losses of Crete led Hitler to put large-scale airborne glider operations on hold, and after the ditching of the German airborne troop concept by the Germans, the DFS-230 operated only as a transport plane. One later, small-scale airborne operation using this glider was successful, however, the German Paratroopers of Operation Eiche (German of "oak") was the raid on Gran Sasso by Otto Szkorzeny and his special forces troops to re-capture Mussolini from his prison in the Italian Alps…."
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| redmist1122 | 10 Jun 2018 9:14 a.m. PST |
I have one of these in 1:48 for WWII Chain of Command gaming. P. |
| wardog | 10 Jun 2018 11:01 a.m. PST |
never knew it was armed with machine gun interesting |
| Tango01 | 10 Jun 2018 2:46 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Mark 1 | 12 Jun 2018 7:14 p.m. PST |
never knew it was armed with machine gun interesting Neither did I. I am intrigued … wonder what they thought they would do with that MG. It is clearly not the squad's MG34 (if the model is accurate), so it was not just a double-duty place to have your squad gun and gunner while in the air. -Mark
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