German Rocketpacks - Part II

The German rocket troop propaganda cartoon from the movie The Rocketeer.
Good puply fun - thanks to Ogrefencer for the clue to look this up!

German Rocketpacks

Another awesome 'secret weapon' that arrived a little too late in the war to be implemented fully, but makes for some great WWW2 "Raketentruppen" options!

The “Himmelstürmer” (Sky Stormer - but literally Heaven Stormer) flight pack was an experimental project that would allow German combat engineers and infantry to cross bridgeless waters, minefields, barbed wire, and other obstacles without hindrance.

As such, the device had to be for short duration “jumps” of ranges up to 50-70 meters. This was not meant to be a individual flying machine to achieve any sort of altitude or long flight journey, so emphasis was placed on finding a suitable type of propulsion to accomplish the limited jump range.

http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/HIMMELSTURMER.htm

Space Hulk wins Origin Award!

Yep, the big box won the Origins Award for the year's best board game.

Korean War: 50 years on

50 years ago this week saw the invasion of South Korea by the communist North and the start of the Korean War.  Technically, this war remains ongoing after an armistice only was signed in 1953.  UN Resolution 83 enabled a multinational response and saw many Allies combat the Northern aggression in harsh climatic conditions in a political environement that had barely emerged from WW2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Australia committed Naval, Land and Air units (including Aircraft Carrier based naval aviation) to the conflict.  Read more about our contributions here:
http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/korea.asp

Lest We Forget