I was looking at some d day para's, but noticed all the BAR infantry, 75mm howitzers and AT guns where only available as regular infantry or ardennes dress paras. Any change of adding those?
I've just had a quick chat with Dave on this one, and the D-Day para's wouldn't have used the 75mm, bit too large to drop out of a plane?
The BAR and AT guns would be the same as the Ardennes ones, only difference in our figures being a crewmen in greatcoat in the Ardennes set. We could swop the crew around though if people wanted different ones, that's easily done.
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I mixed in an assortment of the Para figures when I put together my US Airborne force for Market Garden
Leon was good enough to supply the Ardennes ones without great coats
(http://www.kerynne.com/games/images/USParas/IMG_4693.JPG)
Lots more photos here http://www.kerynne.com/games/USParas.html
Looking at these makes me think I need to rebase some of these for CoC.
Quote from: Leon on 18 September 2013, 08:56:24 PM
75mm, bit too large to drop out of a plane?
IIRC during Market Garden the US para dropped 105mm howitzers (1 regiment, the others were glider landed).
Don't know what they did on D-Day - its possible the support came in over the beaches.
75mm pack howitzers were landed on DDay.
105mm were either glider landed (limited numbers) or DDay or Corps support assets that arrived later by boat.
Yes the 75mm where landed on dday. It could be broken into 9 different loads to make an air drop feasible.
So if the crew is accounted for, that leaves only the BAR. Does the ardennes para with BAR have a greatcoat? And would a regular infantry man with BAR stand out amongst the paras or is this feasible?
The glider troops wore normal infantry uniforms, so the crews for the howitzer etc are correct. A lot, if not all, of their support weapons were beach landed on D-Day.
All the Para Divisions on D-Day glider landed at least 1Btn(US), Rgt(UK) of 75s on D-Day.
IanS
How many that survived the drop is another question :-\