hello you all!


I´m making a diorama depicting soldiers from the 101st in the first hours of the normandy invasion with a lot of help of another user of this page (panzer IV)
I wold likje to know if some of you has done a saimilar diorama and wold let me see the photos so I wold have more ideas
another question(the most important) is that if some of you know of some special equiment issued to the airborne troops that were in the fisrt waves! such as the guys i`m depicting (they are taking a road behind the german line next to the beaches, one of the first and primary objetives of the paratroopers in the fisrt hours of the invasion)

excuse my english i`m from Argentina
well i guesss thats all!

cheers

Paratroopers carried pretty much all they had onto the planes with them. Pathfinders would have had ID panels, beacons (light and radio) for marking drop zones. Others would have been armed with typical infantry weapons. Paratroopers did have Hawkins mines and Gammon Grenades. Many who jumped with leg-bags full of gear found that the shock of jumping caused them to lose their leg-bags. As a result, some special gear was lost and other methods of accomplishing the goals were found. Interestingly, much of the success of the airborne units during the beginning days of Operation Overlord was due to the improvisation of the troops who actually made it to the ground alive. Entire sticks were lost to flak and drowning.