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Buffalo Rangers! "Let Valor not Fail!"

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#1 · (Edited)
Hello Guys, something i did in recent months

All-Black, All-Rangers
well here's a 1/6th project I recently did. It's African american Rangers during the Korean War. The Korean war is often referred to as" The Forgotten war"because of the lack of public attention it received both during and after the war, and in relation to the global scale of world war II, which preceded it, and the subsequent angst of the Vietnam war, which succeeded it. I decided to read up on this conflict and see if i could find a subject to do in my 1/6th kit bashing 'world'.

I came across a book on a very fascinating unit of a segregated all-Black elite Ranger company that fought with distinction in the first 2 years of the "Forgotten War". I had done a WW2 761st African American tanker with cupola display before, so I was keen on doing something on this all-Black Ranger company.
The 2nd Ranger Infantry company (Airborne),as I mentioned before was an African American unit at a time when the U.S. Military was slowly being integrated after years of racial segregation. President Truman's executive Order 9981 in 1948 changed that. But the reality was that the desegregation policy was yet to come into full compliance. Segregation was still being practiced right into the Korean War. White High-Ranking Officers who did not support desegregation would funnel the colored troops into units such as the 2nd Ranger company in the first several Years of the war. But 1950s racial issues aside, the "Buffalo Rangers", as they were Known would give a good account of themselves in the Korean conflict until their deactivation in 1951. The "Buffalo Rangers" participated in "Operation Tomahawk" on March 23rd 1951. This Operation was historic for two reasons, one, it would be the first time a Ranger unit participated in an Airborne combat jump, secondly and more importantly it would be the first combat jump for Black troops in the U.S. military. Attached to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, its parent unit, it would make this historic jump in "Operation Tomahawk" into North Korean and Chinese held territory!

Buffalo!! Let Valor not fail!

"Operation Tomahawk"
2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne)
Master Sgt. assisting
P.F.C
Munsai-Ni
Korea
1951













































































here are some reference materials and book;









AND here's an Article i wrote for a UK Modelling Magazine on this very fascinating subject.
These great heroes deserve more attention-"Rangers Lead the Way!"
i made the cover, out this month.



thanks for looking amigos.
namaste
Miguel
 
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#31 · (Edited)
Thanks amigos for the warm reception to my little diorama. Well i based this on several accounts in the 2nd Rangers BOOK i read there, posted, having awkward fast and HARD landings with their FOURTH POINT of CONTACT, i'm sure you're familiar with the terminology? The accounts state that perhaps large holes (bullets?) on the descending canopies might have attributed to faster descends and thus harder landings. In the book, there are 2 accounts of buffalo rangers having rough landings. The Ranger on the ground should be either Ranger Herc Dias who actually lost his helmet on the jump or Ranger Eugene Coleman who was actually knocked out upon hitting the ground, Both Rangers are still alive today.
So i very much thought that the sculpt i used lended itself well for this particular vignette of mine. And i suppose, although awkward hard landings are rare these days (or not, i don't know lol) it did happen in the infancy of Airborne warfare back then as stated above...but then again you are the experienced para there and i will leave it at what i have read. hope the answer here is to your satisfaction friends.

namaste
Miguel
 
#35 ·
A word to define the masterpiece "masterful"

1 : for a new topic
2 : for a superbly realized decoration
3 : for the actors lol
4 : for the beauty of the subject
5 : because you are my buddy

And to top it all it is in a magazine that ask for more ... yes I know there is no doubt about KOTM the month has blow on

You have just signed a superb realization with an unpublished subject .


Carlos
 
#40 ·
Hehehe something funny but our Lizardking's was on tv last night: after the Italian song festival of Sanremo there is a satirical press room with a funny musician posing as a tv journalist and reading the morrow papers (mostly fakes!), and guess what? Here there was the Military Modeler cover with our friend's work while the comment was it portrays a singer had not entered the competition and lamenting to his brother (or something...)! ^_^
Cheers
 
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