Folgore Division - Light Artillery in 1/72 scale
| Name | NAME: Folgore Division - Light Artillery 1942 [code AP 004] |
| Producer | WATERLOO 1815 – Italy |
| Packing | cardboard box |
| Type of kit | plastic |
| Quality |
This long-awaited box set includes four samples of two different sprues. There are four 47/32 anti-tank guns with three artillerymen and one leading officer and four Breda machine-guns with three soldiers. The postures are correct, it is evident that the sculptor of the old ESCI miniatures is also the author of these paratroopers. |
| Instruction sheet | no |
| Decals | no |
| General Impression & Note |
The Folgore Parachute Division was one of the élite units of the WW II Italian Army. Instead of being utilised for the deleted assault on Malta (Operation C3), this unit was forced to join the other Axis troops at El Alamein in the summer of ’42 and to fight as common infantry. The Folgore was positioned north of the Qattara depression, in front of the British 7th Armoured Division armed with Grant and Sherman tanks. The conditions were extreme, with high temperatures and low supplies. In spite of this, the Folgore paras fought with courage and skill, opposing a stiff resistance to the enemy superiority. The cannone da 47/32 was ineffectual against the new US-made tanks (Grant, Sherman) unless if firing point-blank at short distances. The Folgore Division was almost destroyed in the fighting. After the battle Radio Cairo declared that "The Italians have fought very well. In particular the parachute division Folgore. They have resisted beyond all possible human capacity and beyond all possible hope." |
