Saturday 27 February 2021

Airborne Lead the Way!

Having written the last post about completing the glider infantry, I decided it would be nice if I actually laid out my fully painted US Paratrooper force.

While there's a couple of bits I might add to this force (an extra P-47, adding an M4A1 Sherman platoon, and expanding the Tank Destroyers to a company so the security section is a legal option again), for now everything in the force is painted and I've not ordered anything more. So let's have a quick celebration!

Paratrooper Platoons

 
 M10 Tank Destroyers and their security section

  Armoured Recon Jeeps, Airborne Engineer Platoon and Mortars

More Parachute Infantry

Glider Rifle Infantry

57mm Anti-Tank gun platoon

P-47 Thunderbolt air support

Company Headquarters

Airborne Recon in Armoured Jeeps

Airborne Engineer Platoon

Mortars and AA .50 M2 machine guns

M5A1 Stuart tank platoon


Objective


A few notes:

  • I've done the whole force in the later M1943 pattern common airborne uniform. Hence, the glider rifle infantry look very similar to the Paratroopers.
  • The force was original painted for version 3, as such you may notice some oddities, such as extra command teams, or extra Parachute infantry teams (you could add these to represent other paratroopers picked up after the drop).
  • This is particularly true of the number of Bazooka team. In V3 the answer to the question, "How many bazookas can that platoon take?", was always "Yes". Less useful in the case of the Mortars, but I liked the ability to add them to the anti-tank gun platoon.

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