About Airfix A01716 WWII US Marines 1/72 scale

Airfix A01716 WWII US Marines Series 1 1/72 Scale

Pieces: 46

This exciting 46 piece set is of the World War II United States Marine Corps known as the "Leathernecks" in action. This is a slang term for members of the Marine Corps whose dress blue uniform comprised a leather stock once worn around the neck beginning in 1798. This stiff leather collar fastened by two buckles at the back measured almost three and a half inches high and it prevented the neck movement necessary for sighting along a gun barrel. Its use was supposedly to improve the appearance of the enlisted men by forcing the chin high. It was dropped from the Marine uniform in 1872 but by then had become part of the American vocabulary.

This kit has a full complement of Marines with bazookas, flame throwers, etc, as well as an inflated assault boat.

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