Bolt Action - US Army Infantry Platoon Waffen-SS Backing up the Rifle Platoon

Backing up the Rifle Platoon are a pair of smaller formations deploying powerful support weapons - a Heavy Weapons Platoon of two medium machine gun and one medium mortar teams

Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)

Stummels were issued to heavy gun companies of Panzergrenadier Regiments providing mobile fire support allowing penetration of enemy defences as StuGs and other fully tracked assault guns could not always be available when the Panzergrenadiers needed them

Operations Longcloth & Thursday was written by Rick Hudson

The standard light anti-aircraft weapon of the German armed forces was the 20mm Flak 38

Bolt Action - US Army Infantry Platoon Waffen-SS Backing up the Rifle PlatoonThis box gives you a platoon of tough, well trained troops with enough firepower to successfully perform almost any task given to them. American troops were after all aggressive, resourceful and supremely well equipped These miniatures are usable as almost all types of regular American line troops from the US entry into WWII in the Mediterranean through to the wars end in Europe. They can, of course, be fielded as other nations Uncle Sam outfitted all