Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium’s supposedly impregnable fortress Eben Emael in May 1940. Witzig was involved in Operation Mercury, the invasion of Crete, but was injured during the fighting. After his recovery, he was sent to Tunisia where he was credited with several successful defensive actions. He ended […]
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Meet the Heroes: Grigory Jefimowitsch, Codename: Rasputin
Please meet Russian Partisan Leader Grigori Jefimowitsch, Codename: Rasputin. Grigory is a purely fictional character so he doesn’t really fit the bill for our category historical heroes. He also isn’t inspired by any movie or TV show, so he’s really completely made up and never existed. Well, actually he is a bit inspired by this […]
Meet the Heroes: Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Cole (Cole’s Charge)
On June 11, 1944 LtCol. Robert Cole with the 101st Airborne Division, had the objective to take Carentan. The young commander called in a smoke barrage right in front of the German positions and ordered his men to fix bayonets and charge. Many Americans were killed as they assaulted, but more than 100 of Cole’s […]
Meet the Heroes: British Airborne Major – John Howard
Background: Major (Reginald) John Howard DSO (8 December 1912 – 5 May 1999) was a British Army officer who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Bénouville and Ranville in Normandy, France on 6 June 1944 as part of the D-Day landings during the Second World War. These bridges spanned the Caen Canal and […]
Meet the Heroes: British Army Lt. Col. – John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Mad Jack” Churchill
Background: Lieutenant-Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Jack” Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996) was a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword. Nicknamed “Fighting Jack Churchill” and “Mad Jack”, he is known for the […]
Meet the Heroes: British Navy Beach Master & Captain Colin Maud
Captain Colin Douglas Maud DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar (21 January 1903 – 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who during the Second World War commanded the destroyers Somali and Icarus and acted as beach master of Juno beach at the D-day landings. With a heavy black beard, he “possessed the outward appearance of […]
Meet the Heroes: Hogan, Klink & Schultz
Check out our hommage to Hogan’s Heroes. 🙂 For those of you who haven’t heard of Hogan’s Heroes before, I recommend to take a couple of minutes and to check it out on Youtube. I haven’t watched them all I have to admit, but I did watch most of Season 1 (in black and white) […]
Meet the Heroes: German Oberscharführer Fritz Christen – “PAK of Dubrowka”
As I have received quite a few questions about some of the new Stoessi’s Heroes releases, I think it is time for another quick “meet the heroes”. Let’s start with Fritz Christen: During the battle of Luzhno in Russia, Christen’s crew knocked out 6 attacking tanks. The next day their PaK38 (AT gun) took a […]
Meet the Heroes: German Medical Officer Angela “Mutti” Murkel
Hey folks! Here is another figure for our category “SPECIAL HEROES”: German Medical Officer Angela “Mutti” Murkel 🙂 Disclaimer: Any similarities with living or dead persons is purely coincidental, of course. In case you were wondering. “Angela is one of the most stoic, reliable and calm medical officers that the Wehrmacht has to offer. Her “We […]
Stoessi’s Blitzdepesche – Dick Winters & Special Guest Partisan Leader Grigori Jefimowitsch
So, let’s talk about the two “mystery miniatures” from my last workbench-update post. One of them is a test cast of Captain Winters and I think it’s looking quite good actually. A friend of mine pointed out that he looks a bit like the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. So here he is then…. Gerhard […]