US Navy by Strelets

The Strelets US Navy set seems to be designed for use at Pearl Harbor and other early war battles.

The machine gun comes with separate tubes for the water flow.

The men serving the gun make a nice little vignette. 

With four of these per set you get lots of them rather quickly.

The figures come with a nice variety of weapons.

I really like them and I am going to buy a battleship crew's worth!

Strelets US Navy 1/72nd Scale

The set includes a water cooled .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine gun.

 These massive .50 caliber machine guns were used by the Army and Navy, both on land and on ships.

The crew was mostly composed of men who would handle the large ammo boxes.

It takes a lot of firepower to bring down enemy planes.

This set from Strelets gives several crewmen for the gun and an aircraft ground crewman with fire extinguisher.

US Navy

I have wanted these figures for as long as I have collected 1/72nd scale figures.

US Navy figures for WWII from Strelets.

Sailor with his sea bag.

Every sailor had one to carry all his personal belonging inside.

The US Navy fought may battles in WWII on the water and on land.  At Bataan they formed a Naval Battalion and fought as infantry.

Observe and Report

PT boat with crew.

Everything is a blur as a possible enemy ship is sighted.

Break radio silence and send a signal to HQ.

PT boats often were in place to observe the enemy.

Planes can scramble and be on the enemy ship in minutes.

In the meantime the PT boats can attack, watch the action from afar if the ship is not within striking range.

PT boats have limited fuel and so their range is not long.

Sometimes you have done you job if you have only observed and reported those observations.

Patrol

PT boats on patrol.

The boats cruise along the beach.

They look for enemy soldiers in the jungle.

And they look for enemy ships out to sea.

The green PT boat blends in with the jungle background.

Everyone at the ready.

Battle stations in preparation for attack.