OK, friends, at the suggestion of group member Neil Foster, along with the latent promptings of my better judgment, I am issuing a general inventory for the Kasserine Pass/Tunisia Campaign Build Group. The idea here is not to be exhaustive down to the nth degree, but rather to give a short list overview of the materiel used by both sides throughout the campaign, and so get a sense of the comprehensiveness of our group build—how we are really doing at covering the subject. I will progress with air power, then armour, then naval forces, punctuated at times with links. Any underlined items have already been spoken for by a BG member; asterisk* marked items were raised as possibilities in the headline thread, or have been bandied about in discussion, but have not been officially pinned down in the group build thread. Please feel free to comment. I will also post this as a topic in the Group Build thread so people can chime in.
Air Forces
Allied
Fighters:
P-40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk
Dewoitine D520
A-6 Mustang
Hurricane*
Airacobra
Spitfire
Beaufighter
Bombers/Transports:
A-20 Havoc/Boston
B-25 Mitchell
B-17 Flying Fortress
B-24 Liberator
C-47
Axis
Fighters:
Bf 110
Me 109*
Fw 190
Macchi C.200
Macchi C.202
Bombers/Transports:
Fieseler Störch
Ju 87 (Stuka)*
Ju 88
He 111
Ju 52
Armour
Allied
Crusader Tank
Sherman Tank
Valentine Tank
M3 Lee/Grant Tank
M3 Halftrack
Various artillery piece (75, 105)
Axis
Greif Half-track
Panzer III Tank
Panzer IV Tank
Panzer VI
Fiat M13/40
Fiat M14/41
German 88
Naval Forces
Rather than attempt to document all the individual kinds of vessels employed by the fleets of each belligerent, I’m going to provide this link:
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsNorthAfrica.htm
Here you will find a blow-by-blow, with places, dates, and names, of the various actions in the North African campaign. Anyone motivated to work up a naval modeling approach will find plenty of action here, including carriers, destroyers, landing craft, and submarines.
