Bolt Action - Gebirgsjager Squad Deck Sleeve with an Officer to lead

with an Officer to lead them

later to be renamed the Charlemagne Division

5 cm PaK 40 formed the backbone of German anti-tank guns for the latter part of World War II

and had extensively modernised and upgraded its armed forces in preparation for the conflict

the QF 2-pdr (QF stands for ‘quickfiring’) was the standard anti-tank gun of the British Army

Bolt Action - Gebirgsjager Squad Deck Sleeve with an Officer to leadSpecialist training bred hardened fighters and the Gebirgsjger (mountain infantry) were regarded as elite alongside Fallschirmjager. Gebirgsjger originated from the Alpenkorps of WWI, where they were used to defend the mountain passes from their Italian equivalent, Alpini. Their symbol was the edelweiss, a flower that they also traditionally wore in their caps and collars, adopted in 1907 it eventually became the universal emblem worn by all mountain