1938 US Army Maneuvers

Radio tank, command car, and command van to coordinate the efforts of a vast and mobile army.

The commander with his field glasses observes the action.

A platoon of the new M2 tanks.

They drive past the older M1917 tanks.

Radio tank with a fixed superstructure.

Pick up truck with light anti-tank gun, GPF 155mm and tractor in the distance.

The heavy vehicles and the light vehicles can all tow guns that pack a punch.
 

1938 US Army

Light tanks drive along the beach.

Mobile defense to plug any gaps if the enemy penetrates to the beach.

155mm GPF guns form the backbone of the mobile beach defense artillery.

A might guy first used by the French and later Americans in the Great War.

The Caterpillar bulldozer can scrape together beach defenses much faster than men with shovels.

Staff car and light anti-tank gun.
 

1938

1938 and war clouds are building in Europe and Asia.

US troops are on a major exercise.

GPF 155mm Coast Artillery guns are set up along the shoreline.

Large trucks bring in supplies.

Smaller vehicles bring in officers and other materials.
 

V2 Missile Project

Back in olden times there was a company that went by several names, Grip, Arii, Eadai, and they made plastic models.

This anhydrous ammonia trailer is from some die cast company and unrelated to the V2 kit but I use it for a fuel transport anyway.

And that company Grip, made a series of 1/76th scale WWII German models.  They were simple and durable and great for wargames.  They included a V2 missile with the transporter/ erector trailer, launch pad, missile, radar, and control halftrack.

This is the control halftrack.  The trailer with all the wheels is some unknown plastic kit I got and I use it as another fuel vehicle.  The Grip kit did not come with fuel vehicles.

A close up of the bottom of the missile.  I am working on a project that has languished for decades.  It is an American V2 missile.  In all the space science fiction movies of the early 1950s there are V2 missile launches being shown, often they are German test footage, but frequently they are stock footage of the US Army experimenting with V2 missiles and equipment captured at the end of the war.  So these are getting a repaint.  I have others that will continue to serve their original owners.