Airfix D-Day Operation Overlord Set (1:76)

D-Day Operation Overlord Set

Early on the morning of June 6th 1944 the combined forces of the Allied armies landed on the Normandy beaches in Northern France in the most ambitious and important operation of the Second World War. With airborne troops already on the ground and fighting, the sea-borne element of the force began landing. This phase of the operation was codenamed Neptune and consisted of five invasion beaches, three British and Canadian (Sword, Gold and Juno) and two American beaches (Omaha and Utah). The landings themselves were preceded both by a powerful air attack and by a fierce naval artillery barrage from a vast armada of ships anchored off-shore.

The majority of the beaches were taken with casualties, but no severe losses, except for Omaha where the American troops were pinned down after the naval bombardment failed to destroy the German defences. But even this obstacle was overcome and once the beach-heads were secure, Allied troops and equipment were quickly brought ashore, ready to continue on and liberate the occupied countries of Western Europe and ultimately to defeat Germany and win the war.

Includes:

- Plastic kit

- Battlefield diorama base with D-Day coastal defense fort

- Higgins LCVP

- Willys MB Jeep with Trailer and Howitzer

- LCM Landing Craft

- Cromwell Mk IV Tank 

- Bedford QLD Troop Carrier 

- Sherman M4 Tank 

- WW2 British Infantry 

- WW2 German Infantry

- Glue, paints and brushes included

- 1:72 Scale

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