RE: Looking for US Army minis

Try the Brookside Hobbies web page for some 20mm SHQ Mins Vietnam and
Gulf War (only Brit and Iraqi at this stage) and 25mm Vietnam

Owen G

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From: jfoster@kansas.net [mailto:jfoster@kansas.net]
Sent: Friday, 19 June 1998 22:11
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Looking for US Army minis

At 22:58 6/18/98, John Atkinson wrote:
>>     Y'know, now that I think about it, with the USA having the Fritz
>helmet, >and the older M60, which looks a LOT like the MG42, I can see
>
>Well it's not our fault the Germans had better helmets and machine guns
>than we did!  It's only logical to copy the best--although we didn't
>quite get the '60 right.  That German reliability somehow evades. . .

Although, didn't the German army go to a pot style like the old US WWII
helmet? (Albeit, constructed of composites)

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