Friday 29 May 2015

WEST GERMAN - Federal Navy's Amphibsches Transportbattailon

As is usually the case while looking for something else I stumbled across a couple of websites which show the West Germans using LARC-5 (LARC-V). It would appear that the West German Federal Navy's Amphibsches Transportbattailon 2 & 4 based in Emden received a total of 53 LARC-V in 1963 and 1964. This was apparently part of 200 in total that went into service.

http://www.panzerbaer.de/helper/bw_amphgrp-a.htm

http://www.usarmygermany.com/Sont.htm?http&&&www.usarmygermany.com/Units/Engineer/USAREUR_6960th%20CLGp.htm

Now from what I can gather they were gradually phased out of service with the last ones being decommissioned in the late 80's early 90's. Now as the CWC Megagame is a great opportunity to get unusual units on the table, so I had some of the new Heroics & Ros LARC-5 models for my 'Dragonstrike' project but as other projects are taking priority at the moment I have decided to use four for my West Germans.



4 comments:

  1. They look great. Will have to get some for me too.

    Cheers, Andy

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  2. Very good, great looking miniatures.
    Cheers
    Steve

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  3. Very nice. And now I know what the big amphibious truck that I saw outside Fort Perch in New Brighton was when I was home last week!

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  4. Cheers, gald to be of assistance :-)

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