This radioman is one of my favorite Recce troopers. The BBI wireless set No. 38, is a rare, fragile little jewel. Note that although offered with two figures, the SAS desert raider Doulgas Caldwell, and a British paratrooper named Robert Cooke, the former was the only one of the two figures that came with a throat mike. The throat mike is so delicate that it breaks if you just look at it. Note the edges of the small pack flap left un-blanco-ed.
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Standing on the exact point where C troop, lead jeep section 8, under Lieutenant Peter Bucknell, was found destroyed, all four occupants dead. The plan for a thunderclap "Coup de Main" jeep attack and seizure of the Arnhem Bridge, had failed at this exact spot!
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The famous "Rabbit Hole". Trapped behind the railroad embankment, hundreds of men, including Polish artillerymen, were unable to escape the northern-most landing zones, because every time they tried to go over the top of it, flanking Germans would cut them down. At length, somebody found this access tunnel under the mound, allowing everybody, including dozens of Recce-men, to quietly escape. They found that if they let half the air out of the jeeps' tires, they would just fit through too! This is the actual tunnel today.
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0-3 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-9 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-2 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-1 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-5 by Stephen Duffy, on FlickrStanding on the exact point where C troop, lead jeep section 8, under Lieutenant Peter Bucknell, was found destroyed, all four occupants dead. The plan for a thunderclap "Coup de Main" jeep attack and seizure of the Arnhem Bridge, had failed at this exact spot!
0-7 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-4 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr0-8 by Stephen Duffy, on FlickrThe famous "Rabbit Hole". Trapped behind the railroad embankment, hundreds of men, including Polish artillerymen, were unable to escape the northern-most landing zones, because every time they tried to go over the top of it, flanking Germans would cut them down. At length, somebody found this access tunnel under the mound, allowing everybody, including dozens of Recce-men, to quietly escape. They found that if they let half the air out of the jeeps' tires, they would just fit through too! This is the actual tunnel today.
0-6 by Stephen Duffy, on Flickr