Cruel Seas: HMS Campbeltown raf

Cruel Seas: HMS Campbeltown rafOriginally a US destroyer, HMS Campbeltown was transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the Destroyers for Bases agreement after the outset of World War Two. She was arguably the most famous of these ships due to her role in Operation Chariot in 1942. Though she saw a brief service with the Royal Netherlands Navy, her most famed action was that against the dry dock of St Nazaire. This facility was the Worlds largest dry dock, and provided a site of

Assault of New Guinea

New Jersey

Though the great fleet actions planned for and desired by the architects of the Royal Navy did not materialise during World War Two

as there is no other source of pictorial evidence

Devised in the last years of the war

It was this capable and confident navy that came out to fight the American Pacific Fleet

The response was to re-fit the tank with a larger turret and 75mm gun

US Navy Fleet

Rorke's Drift and Ulundi

shortly before engaging American forces and Midway and during the Guadalcanal campaign

Pack contains 1 metal vehicle and 2 metal crew figures

They can be suitably mixed in with Early Highlander Axemen as an Early Highlander General's Bodyguard