Tuesday, December 14, 2010

On the Road to Sainte-Mère-Église

FoW Objective Vandervoort
FoW Objective Vandervoort
Originally uploaded by The Gonk
I finally got my Vandervoort objective finished up and photographed. I'm not much of a scratch builder, so I'm pretty pleased with how my creation came out. Here we see Lt. Colonel Vandervoort being hauled down a side road after injuring his leg upon landing during the 82nd's D-Day drop. He's passing a sign post showing that he's headed for Sainte-Mère-Église, one of the 505th PIR's objectives, and-- well, would you look at that! I misspelled Eglise!!!!!!!!!!! Argh!!!! I quit this stupid hobby!!!

From Ravelin's Order of Battle Operation Overlord, Volume 4: Utah Beach & the US Airborne Divisions 6 June 1944:
Lacking information from Ste.-Mere-Eglise, the regimental commander ordered Vandervoort to go and capture that town...Although suffering a broken leg, Vandervoort continued in command using a hand-pulled cart as his headquarters.
I didn't realize this at the time, but Vandervoort was Lt. Turnbull's CO, the Flames of War warrior for the Airborne, which makes him especially appropriate!
FoW Objective Vandervoort
FoW Objective Vandervoort
FoW Objective Vandervoort
FoW Objective Vandervoort
FoW Objective Vandervoort

5 comments:

  1. Nice little dio :-) Do they get where they are going?
    Greetings
    Paul

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  2. Bah, the road sign for Eglise was probably painted by US troops fresh in the country after their tanks ran over the original, hence the typo!

    Cool-looking objective marker chief.

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  3. Awesome dude ! .... Spelling is overrated anyway :)

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  4. Simple, yet brilliant. This is a great little diorama.

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