One of the most popular WW2 heroes of all times is probably Major Dick Winters of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Through the wild success of the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, him and the other members of Easy Company became known across the whole world. Multiple books and tons of articles […]
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Meet the Heroes: British Lieutenant Joseph Winston (Pat) Glover & Myrtle Para- Chick
Lt. Glover captured and trained Myrtle, a chicken, to parachute. Myrtle completed the required number of training jumps and was awarded a set of wings. On the day of the drop into Holland for Operation Market, Myrtle was stuffed inside his parachuting jacket, and the jacket was closed over. And when Pat jumped, Myrtle jumped […]
Meet the Heroes: SOE & French Resistance Nancy Wake aka “The White Mouse”
Nancy Wake was a hard-drinking, hard-fighting WWII special agent, saboteur, and Maquis commander who survived four days of Gestapo interrogation, saved over two hundred downed Allied pilots from falling into the clutches of the Nazis, blew up a couple German supply depots, had a bounty of five million Francs placed on her head, and then […]
Meet the Heroes: Lt. Col. Charles Carpenter aka “Bazooka Charlie”
Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter was famous for his usage of this plane against tanks and armored vehicles. Armed with Bazookas, he was credited with the destruction of 14 tanks (Two Tigers), several armored vehicles, and killing dozens of German soldiers. Here is the miniature that Stoessi’s Heroes is releasing to honour Charles Carpenter: Let’s talk […]
Meet the Heroes: German Feldwebel & Panzer Ace Kurt Knispel
Kurt Knispel was born on September 20th 1921 in a small town called Salisfled in Czechoslovakia. Knispel spent most of his childhood in Mikulovice, where his father worked in an automotive factory. Knispel disliked factory work and in April 1940 Knispel joined the Wehrmacht as a volunteer. Knispel first saw action in August 1941 in […]
Meet the Heroes: Soviet Army Guards Senior Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya
After the Germans killed her husband, Mariya wanted revenge for his death and for the death of the Soviet people. For this purpose she deposited all her personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to the National Bank in order to build a tank. She then wrote Stalin the following letter: “My husband was killed in […]
Meet the Heroes: Japanese Imperial Army – 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda
Hirō Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer would fought in World War 2 and did not surrender in 1945. After he spent 29 years holding out in the Philippinies where he performed guerilla warfare, his former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty in 1974. „Every Japanese soldier […]
Impressions from the Battlefield
A more impressions from yesterday’s 1000 point game US Airborne. We played the mission Top Secret with a US list that had lots of veterans and a 105mm howitzer Sherman against Germans without any armoured vehicles, but with a Hauptmann (Captain) in their ranks. In the end, the Germans took the objective and won the […]
Meet The Heroes: Colonel David Stirling “Phantom Major” – Founder of the SAS
With a whole bunch of new Stoessi’s Heroes releases coming out in the next few weeks, I am getting super-excited and would like to share some of my excitement by introducing you to each of the new heroes one by one. If you are following my group on Facebook, you have already seen a sneak-preview […]
Step-by-step – Painting Palmenmuster (palm tree) camouflage in Autumn colors
Here we go with the first part of the long awaited series on how to paint German WW2 camouflage patterns. We’ll start with the Palmenmuster (palm tree) camo pattern for Autumn, so predominantly in brown and orange colors. I am not claiming that my way of painting camo patterns is the best way or the most […]