Ram Kangaroo (x2)
Preis 11.14 - 14.00 USD
Ram Kangaroo APC (BR203) includes two one-piece resin Ram Kangaroo Armoured Personnel Carries with passengers. Once the Allies had successfully established a beachhead after the landings on D-Day, their next goal was the break-out of Normandy. However, the rising causality rates due to the heavy fighting were cause for concern the Canadian General Harry Crerar. He would turn to Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds, commander of the II Canadian Corps for a solution. Simonds first thought to transporting infantry in armoured vehicles during Operation Totalise in August 1944. The operation required the infantry to cross large areas of open ground when would expose them to enemy fire, therefore transporting the infantry in an armoured vehicle would reduce the number of causalities. Leading up to the operation, the M7 Priest HMC had just been superseded by the Sexton so Simonds organised R.E.M.E. workshops to remove the 105mm howitzer so the discarded Priests could be used as troop transports. These vehicles become known as Unfrocked or Defrocked Priests.