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SAS Jeep - 1/4 Ton 4x4 Desert Raider - North African Campaign - 1942-43 - 1:6th Scale
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£299.99 (Incl. VAT)
Britain's famous Special
Air Service Regiment, much copied but never equalled, was the brainchild
of the gifted military genius Lt Col David Stirling. His
behind-the-lines unit, the SAS, helped by the veterans of the Long Range
Desert Group, burst spectacularly onto the scene in the North African
Desert in 1941.
A small force of well-trained, well-armed
determined men operating deep behind enemy lines, the SAS achieved
damage and destruction way out of proportion to its size, destroying -
on the ground - over 400 of the enemy's best war-planes. With
variations, such as attacks on troops, trains, ammunition dumps and
communication, this successful formula was repeated throughout the war
in Italy and North West Europe and into Germany itself.
The SAS
acquired their own famous transport, their feared armoured jeeps,
bristling with deadly Vickers K and Browning machine guns, roaming the
desert performing recce and raiding duties. |
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