Bolt Action - Australian Independent Commando Section British Airborne First seeing action in Normandy

First seeing action in Normandy and armed with a potent 75mm gun and with good cross country performance

From 1943 it was deployed as divisional support for infantry formations

and a light anti-tank gun in the turret

providing as they do great tactical flexibility for your force

and these men

Bolt Action - Australian Independent Commando Section British Airborne First seeing action in NormandyThe Australian Army raised a number of units for commando style operations during the Second World War the first being the twelve Independent Commando Companies formed between 1941 and 1942. Predominantly serving in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and Borneo their task was to perform raids, demolition, sabotage, subversion, and organisation of civil resistance against the Japanese. The Independent Companies saw heavy action, serving with