German - Battle of the Bulge

One of Hitler’s favourite soldiers... This Waffen SS officer made his reputation rescuing deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his hidden mountain imprisonment on Gran Sasso. Since then Skorzeny was promoted and given a number of undercover missions to perform before being put in charge of a small unit of English-speaking German soldiers who, dressed in US Army uniforms, and using captured U.S. Vehicles were to infiltrate Allied lines and create panic and confusion in advance of the German attack during the Battle of the Bulge. Skorzeny himself never donned US Army uniform but was a well known and easily recognized figure in the Third Reich thanks to Propaganda Chief Goebbel’s publicity machine and won the Oak Leaves to his Knight’s Cross for his efforts, late in the war, trying to defend Frankfurt. After the war he still led a colourful and exciting life ... escaping Allied internment ... advising foreign governments ... and even working with MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence

Our last infantryman of this release has found himself a white “Snow Smock” and carries his K98 with bayonet fixed! He’s also obtained a nice pair of captured binoculars! - See more at: http://www.kingandcountry.com/friedrich-p-10678.html#sthash.mEl1miQN.dpuf

This Wehrmacht captain is wearing a non regulation fur cap together with his “Splinter Camo” jacket ... his steel helmet by his side

This really was a “monster” with a very big “bite” in the shape of that mighty ’88 gun in the hull of the Jagdpanther. This “Bulge” version has had a field-applied coat of snow-camouflage whitewash which already is showing signs of “wear and tear” on its “zimmerit” coating. Two great new crew figures add even more character to the model.

On the Eastern Front one of the most urgent German necessities was for a heavy, multi-purpose tractor that could haul supplies and artillery over the very rough Russian road network. In late 1941, famed German designer, Ferdinand Porsche proposed a large, four-wheeled drive tractor mounted on huge metal wheels that he believed could fill the requirement. He proposed that his design could be built at the Skoda Automobile Plant in German controlled Bohemia and Moravia utilizing its Czech workforce. Work began immediately and by mid 1942 the first samples of Porsche’s design were ready to be tested. The results were at best ... mixed. However an order was placed for 200 of the now-called “Radschlepper Ost”. Although originally meant for service on the Eastern Front, only a handful ever went in that direction. The vast majority served in the West particularly Normandy, the Netherlands and even some during the Ardennes campaign. K&C has chosen the snow-camouflaged “winter” version of the ve

An SS Panzergrenadier offers to share some of his captured U.S. "C Rations" with a Volksturm rifleman

A hapless GI forlornly trudges into captivity followed closely by his German captor