SS192 - Radio Operator Papau New Guinea Scale: 54mm / 1:30

Scale: 54mm / 1:30

5th Division

and tall boots

the flagbearer—or color bearer—held a dangerous and prestigious role:

Survival rates improved dramatically because evacuation times dropped from hours to minutes

SS192 - Radio Operator Papau New Guinea Scale: 54mm / 1:30The 6th SS Mountain Division was formed in February 1941 as the SS Battle Group North (SS Kampfgruppe Nord) in southern Norway before being upgraded and renamed the SS Division Nord in preparation for Operation Barbarossa and holds the unique distinction of being the only German SS unit to have fought in the Artic Circle. Initially the unit had low combat effectiveness, in the second half of 1941 the division was effectively destroyed by the Russians