{"product_id":"u-s-marine-advancing-no-2-belleau-wood-1918","title":"U.S. Marine Advancing, No.2,  Belleau Wood, 1918","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 6 June 1918 the Marines walked into a wheat field and suffered the bloodiest day in their Corps' history to that point. It came from Pershing's faith in \"open warfare\" — the belief that aggressive American infantry with good rifles could cross open ground and overwhelm a dug-in enemy, without the creeping artillery barrage the French and British had bled four years to learn. So the 4th Brigade advanced in waves across eight hundred yards of knee-high wheat, into machine-gun fire that swept the whole field. One battalion was cut to shreds short of the trees. Major Thomas Holcomb wrote home of it: \"There was never anything finer than their advance across a place literally swept with machine gun fire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pose is that advance — crouched low, rifle held ready across the body, one boot driving forward. This is the man in Holcomb's letter, out in the open with a long way still to go. Build the sequence around him: he crosses the wheat toward the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-standing-throwing-grenade-belleau-wood-1918\"\u003egrenade-thrower\u003c\/a\u003e working the treeline, and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-standing-firing-trench-shot-gun-belleau-wood-1918\"\u003eshotgun\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-fighting-with-german-infantryman-belleau-wood-1918\"\u003erifle-butt fight\u003c\/a\u003e are what wait once he reaches the trees. Set several advancing figures in a loose line across bare groundwork and you have the wheat field itself — the empty ground between the start line and the wood is the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 13097. 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49718920020196,"sku":"13097","price":71.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/13097_grey_9396A9A20FC36.webp?v=1787694584","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/en-ca\/products\/u-s-marine-advancing-no-2-belleau-wood-1918","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}