Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.

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  1. MWC 88 - 1940s American Naval Diver

    by , Jul 27, 2017 at 12:13 AM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)


    During WWII the United States Navy set up an elite force, The Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) Their two main objectives were reconnaissance of enemy defences on coastal positions, and demolition of beach obstacles designed to hinder amphibious landing craft.
    Aware of the disastrous allied landings at Gallipoli in World War I, the US Navy provided possible solutions for future conflicts, ...
  2. MWC 87 - 1970s American Army Soldier

    by , Jul 25, 2017 at 04:28 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)


    By 1970 there was increasing political pressure in the U.S.A. to end the Vietnam war peacefully, as well as several other conflicts in the area that the US had a part in. there was however still heavy fighting ongoing throughout the region including Large scale operations and small Special forces operations, the difficult unfamiliar terrain and inhospitable climate made standard tactics unusable ...
  3. MWC 86 - 1940s Soviet Airman

    by , Jul 18, 2017 at 08:00 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)


    As the Russian Army advanced through Germany at the close of World War II they captured Glashutte, one of the most important watch manufacturing areas in Germany. The Soviets quickly recognised an opportunity and seized all the watchmaking machinery and equipment, technical diagrams and spare parts, that they could, loaded them onto trucks, and carried them off as war reparations to Moscow
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  4. MWC 85 - 1970s Chinese Army Officer

    by , Jul 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)


    The differences in communist ideology between The Soviet Union and China caused a split between the two countries that verged on open war for nearly three decades, the cold war had driven the Soviets to major military advancements and increases in military hardware and personnel. Border skirmishes were not unheard of and many troops were killed and equipment captured, including a Russian t-62 tank ...
  5. MWC 84 - 1940s German Paratrooper

    by , Jul 9, 2017 at 06:12 PM (Eaglemoss Military Watches Collection.)


    The Soviets had already demonstrated the military possibilities of airborne infantry, large numbers of troops could parachute into potential battle zones via large transport aircraft, and while they would not be heavily armed they had the advantage of surprise and could then be reinforced by land-based infantry with heavier armaments

    Germany's Parachute arm, the Fallschirmjager, was ...
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