For a number of years now I have had a WWII skirmish project simmering away on the back-burner. In a previous post I showed off my US airborne infantry but I have documented very little on my blog since then. My collection is somewhat unusual, including as it does, a captured Char B tank, aContinue reading “Schwerpunkt!”
Tag Archives: 1944
Canada at War
After having received a last-minute text from my good friend Graham, letting me know that he was free for a game on Sunday, I wasted no time in finding a scenario for us to play Crossfire:WWII using my 1/600 scale miniatures. As I mentioned in my previous post, the anniversary of the D-Day landings took place on Thursday, so I was keen toContinue reading “Canada at War”
6th June 1944
Ever since I was young, this date has held a deep-seated interest for me, because on this day in 1944 the D-Day landings, the biggest amphibious invasion in world history, took place on the Normandie coast line of France. It marked the opening of the ‘Second Front’, which the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, had been demanding for quite some time, whilst hisContinue reading “6th June 1944”
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