“Hitlerjugend on the Move”
25.SS-Pz Gren Regt
12.SS-PzDiv “Hitlerjugend”
Normandy, June 1944
Some grenadiers move into position in the early days of the Normandy campaign.
In the group there is a 80mm mortar group and a heavy MG34 squad.
In a separate scene an Untersturmfuhrer gets some reconnaisance information from an Oberscharfuhrer of the divisions recon detachment who has just come back from a forward probe in a Schwimm.
The officer later rides through the grebnadier column in a BMW R75 motorcycleto talk to the NCOs in charge at the head of the column.
Light conditions did not cooperate as there were no clouds (where are they when you need them!) in the almost five hours from beginning to end of the “excersise”.
Light conditions changed throughout the morning and I took several similar sets of images. If you care to see more, there are plenty of similar shots with different light and angles and shots of smaller groups and individual images of many of the figures, you can go directly to the Picturetrail album through this link:
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23937528
Here the images:
Unterstrumfuhrer getting recon report then rides up to the head of the column:
Finally here is a group pic as I took out the figures from the tupperware bins, lined them up to see which would make it to the scene. There are generic grenadiers, walking wounded, the mortar group, the MG34 with tripod group, some medics, sharpshooters and some recon troopers with less feld equipment which I used in the rear of the column as they are there to fill in the rear.
25.SS-Pz Gren Regt
12.SS-PzDiv “Hitlerjugend”
Normandy, June 1944
Some grenadiers move into position in the early days of the Normandy campaign.
In the group there is a 80mm mortar group and a heavy MG34 squad.
In a separate scene an Untersturmfuhrer gets some reconnaisance information from an Oberscharfuhrer of the divisions recon detachment who has just come back from a forward probe in a Schwimm.
The officer later rides through the grebnadier column in a BMW R75 motorcycleto talk to the NCOs in charge at the head of the column.
Light conditions did not cooperate as there were no clouds (where are they when you need them!) in the almost five hours from beginning to end of the “excersise”.
Light conditions changed throughout the morning and I took several similar sets of images. If you care to see more, there are plenty of similar shots with different light and angles and shots of smaller groups and individual images of many of the figures, you can go directly to the Picturetrail album through this link:
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23937528
Here the images:
Unterstrumfuhrer getting recon report then rides up to the head of the column:
Finally here is a group pic as I took out the figures from the tupperware bins, lined them up to see which would make it to the scene. There are generic grenadiers, walking wounded, the mortar group, the MG34 with tripod group, some medics, sharpshooters and some recon troopers with less feld equipment which I used in the rear of the column as they are there to fill in the rear.
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