Includes two resin and metal Grille 15cm Self-propelled Guns and two Unit cards.
Unlike the lighter 7.5cm gun, the 15cm gun cannot be mounted on an Sd Kfz 251 half-track, so the Germans built the Grille (Cricket). This gives the panzergrenadiers some serious firepower to knock out bunkers and a heavy artillery piece to bombard stubborn defences.
Check out the Grille 15cm Gun Platoon in the online store here…D-Day: German
The Germans had spent years building up their defences along the French coast. Behind this Atlantic Wall, a dozen veteran panzer and parachute divisions, rebuilding after desperate battles on the Eastern Front, prepared to throw any Allied landing back into the sea. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the greatest air and sea invasion of the war crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy. Although they were unable to throw the Allies back into the sea, the German forces held back the Allied tide for more than three months in some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War. The battle for Europe had begun in earnest.