Bolt Action - US Army 57mm Anti-Tank Gun M1 (Winter) POLISH Blister Packs The LDV evolved into the

The LDV evolved into the Home Guard

Despite facing the double invasion of their homeland in 1939 by both Germany and the Soviet Union

This force gives you the perfect starting point for a British collection themed around the later war in North-West Europe

which was to rely on close assault tactics

As a Heavy Anti-tank Gun

Bolt Action - US Army 57mm Anti-Tank Gun M1 (Winter) POLISH Blister Packs The LDV evolved into theThe 57mm M1 anti tank gun was a close copy of the British QF 6pdr which was itself also used by some American units. The M1 originally fired an armoured piercing shell weighing 2. 272kg but this soon proved to be insufficient to penetrate the armour of the new Panther and Tiger tanks. In 1944 an APDS (armoured piercing dispensing sabot) shell was developed making this the first gun to have a discarding sabot shot as its service round. HE shells were