Riflemen in Action--two Waffen SS Panzergrenadier figures
$115.00

King & Country

Item Number: WS390

Riflemen in Action

Standing and kneeling with K98s ready.

"‘EASTERN FRONT, SUMMER OF ‘43’"

By July 1943, there was a massive build-up of huge armies on either side of the Eastern Front around Kursk in preparation for a German assault to destroy the Soviet salient that had formed in the area.  Among the German forces preparing to assault the Russian positions were no less that three of Hitler’s most elite Waffen SS Panzergrenadier Divisions:  The 1^st SS ‘Leibstandarte’; The 2^nd SS ‘Das Reich’; and The 3^rd SS ‘Totenkopf’; plus one more SS division kept in reserve, The 5^th SS ‘Viking’.

Each of these Panazergrenadier divisions was, on paper, organized and equipped in the same manner as a regular German Army armoured division; however, the SS Divisions had a substantially larger number of tanks and other armoured vehicles.  In addition, each of these Waffen SS formations had two entire regiments of Panzergrenadier Infantry supported by the division’s own artillery regiment and separate battalions of anti aircraft troops, reconnaissance units and pioneers.

These 2^nd Generation Waffen SS soldaten are dressed in the representative uniforms of the mid war period complete with their distinctive camouflage smocks and helmet covers which the Waffen SS pioneered.

SEPTEMBER 2023