Years of planning culminate in The Longest Day; the long-awaited invasion begins with the assault on the beaches of Normandy; D-Day 6th June 1944...The longest dayNormandy; 6 June 1944. The Allies undertake the largest and most ambitious amphibious landings in history to return the fight to western Europe.Re-create the turning point of the war; that allowed the Allies to gain a foothold in Europe and which was to set the stage for the Axis downfall.This set contains:2x LCVP landing craft1x AT/Flak bunker1x Coastal Defence bunker2x German Pak 40 ATG (for inside the bunkers)Craters/shell holes1x Duplex Drive Sherman with lowered screens32x plastic US Infantry16x plastic German Grenadiers2x MG 42 MMG teams4x US Army casualties2x US Engineers carrying Bangalore torpedoes2x MMG sandbag emplacementsSet of battlefield accessories2m of barbed wire