2024/09/24

LEGION ETRANGERE

«Enthusiastic foreign volunteers are good for national morale, but in practical terms they can be a nuisance. Few of these idealists had a military background; their enthusiasm was generous but their expectations unrealistic. To educated political liberals the brutal realities of old-fashioned military life came as a shock.»

 

 

 

 

Scene no 70: The Legionnaires (Britains deetail, metal based models, 7780 Foreign Legion Infantry figures in all 6 poses and 7770 Gatling gun & crew) in battle positions under the palm trees (CollectA  toy models, coconut palm).

The text: From «French Foreign Legion 1914-1945», by Martin Windrow.

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