Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Takashige Egusa 0416

Blood Red Skies Japanese Ace Pilot: Takashige Egusa 0416Egusa was born in Hiroshima and graduated from the Etajima Naval Academy as a dive bombing specialist in 1930. He fought in China and was later stationed on the carrier Soryu where he became commander of an Aichi D3A (Val) dive bomber squadron. Egusa led his squadron during the Pearl Harbor raid, hitting USS Nevada, and in later campaigns over Java, Wake Island, Ambon, the raids on Port Darwin in Australia and Ceylon. Egusa met his end in June 1944

Although adequately armoured for the inter-war period

1 pair of metal LCVP Machine Gun Crew

The last black powder weapon ever issued to the British Army

Though superseded by the Churchill and Sherman on the Western Front

Within these powerful forces emerged another force

Transport: up to 3 men

flag sheet

the Ohio started the voyage from Gibraltar to Malta on August 10

Age of Bronze contains 32 scenarios - in addition to the traditional Hail Caesar massed battles we introduce skirmish rules for smaller scale conflicts between warbands so often seen during this period

It took part in the main airborne landings of WWII but its name is particularly connected to the two most famous missions: the landing in Normandy on the 6th June 1944 and the attack on Arnhem Bridge in Operation Market Garden

each man hand-picked for his height and military bearing

Furutaka 1939