Product Description
Company HQ (FJ) (GE761)
includes one Company Command SMG team, one 2iC Command SMG team, one Anti-tank Rifle team, one Mortar Section with three Light Mortar teams, one Open Drop canister, one Closed Drop canister & seven Small bases.
The Fallschirmjäger made the first airborne infantry assaults in history. In 1940 in Western Europe they were used to take strategic positions with parachute and glider assaults.
In 1941 they stormed the island of Crete in the biggest military airborne operation to that point. The Luftwaffe created the Fallschirmjäger in 1936 after General Kurt Student observed Soviet airborne troop exercises in 1935, and Student became their commander. Initially the formations started as a single battalion and grew quickly to a division by 1938.
Only the best volunteers were selected for the Fallschirmjäger, and then these enthusiastic and intelligent volunteers were put through a vigorous training regime. New techniques and tactics were put into practice between 1936 and 1940.
These miniatures are supplied unassembled and unpainted
