German trucks, halftracks, SP guns like the Marder II and III, pz. IV as well as the Panther and StuG III. I saw a list of German units involved once.

German trucks, halftracks, SP guns like the Marder II and III, pz. IV as well as the Panther and StuG III. I saw a list of German units involved once.

a Sherman, with hedge cutter and inf support is breaking through the bocage, and outflanking a 75mm Pak, which is aiming the other way. The Pak crew, and supporting inf, look quite distressed and are quickly abandoning their position.

Wasn't the Panzer Lehr Division the opposing force during Op Cobra? In addition to the suggestions you already have, you can add towed 88s, half-tracks, and the ubiquitous Pak 40 75mm towed AT gun. It really depends on your diorama, as some of these choices might look too dominant in the scene. Also, it depends on location (on road, in field) as to which vehicles might be present behind the hedge.

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Wasn't the Panzer Lehr Division the opposing force during Op Cobra? In addition to the suggestions you already have, you can add towed 88s, half-tracks, and the ubiquitous Pak 40 75mm towed AT gun. It really depends on your diorama, as some of these choices might look too dominant in the scene. Also, it depends on location (on road, in field) as to which vehicles might be present behind the hedge.

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Also keep in mind that Panzer Lehr was on the way to Normandy when it was virtually obliterated by US/Allied air power, (JABOS), before a few of their surviving vehicles actually made it into the Bocage. I should also mention that there was a very strong Fallschirmjaeger presence in Normandy, which you might be able to enhance your project with, say, a Panzerfaust or MG-42 team "bugging out"..? You might want to also include a few Fallschirmjaeger caught in surprise by GIs- "HAENDE HOCH!!!"

What sort of a 2nd Armored Sherman are you planning to use? Bear in mind that most US Armor in Normandy were still M5A1 Lights, M4 Mid-to-Late 75mm VVSS (Dry) and M4A1 Mid-to-Late 75mm VVSS (Dry) Mediums. These used the 56-degree welded and cast "Small Hatch" Hulls, respectively. M4 VVSS 76mm (Wet) and M4A1 VVSS 76mm (Wet) Mediums, with the 47-degree "Big Hatch" Hulls, were still comparatively rare in ETO at the time of "COBRA", when compared to the vast numbers of the earlier Shermans that were available for front-line service...

Same goes for 3rd Armored, if you're planning to do a representative of that US Armored Division. 4th, and 6th Armored came in with Patton's Third Army, after the 1st of August, 1944...

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Wasn't the Panzer Lehr Division the opposing force during Op Cobra? In addition to the suggestions you already have, you can add towed 88s, half-tracks, and the ubiquitous Pak 40 75mm towed AT gun. It really depends on your diorama, as some of these choices might look too dominant in the scene. Also, it depends on location (on road, in field) as to which vehicles might be present behind the hedge.

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Also keep in mind that Panzer Lehr was on the way to Normandy when it was virtually obliterated by US/Allied air power, (JABOS), before a few of their surviving vehicles actually made it into the Bocage. I should also mention that there was a very strong Fallschirmjaeger presence in Normandy, which you might be able to enhance your project with, say, a Panzerfaust or MG-42 team "bugging out"..? You might want to also include a few Fallschirmjaeger caught in surprise by GIs- "HAENDE HOCH!!!"

What sort of a 2nd Armored Sherman are you planning to use? Bear in mind that most US Armor in Normandy were still M5A1 Lights, M4 Mid-to-Late 75mm VVSS (Dry) and M4A1 Mid-to-Late 75mm VVSS (Dry) Mediums. These used the 56-degree welded and cast "Small Hatch" Hulls, respectively. M4 VVSS 76mm (Wet) and M4A1 VVSS 76mm (Wet) Mediums, with the 47-degree "Big Hatch" Hulls, were still comparatively rare in ETO at the time of "COBRA", when compared to the vast numbers of the earlier Shermans that were available for front-line service...

Same goes for 3rd Armored, if you're planning to do a representative of that US Armored Division. 4th, and 6th Armored came in with Patton's Third Army, after the 1st of August, 1944...

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I will be using Dragon's M4A1 Op Cobra. I was thinking of using Dragon's hedgerow tank hunters and, possibly an mg42 team.

Matt,

if you're just using figures rather than a German vehicle then you have almost a free hand... Heer troops, Waffen-SS or Fallschirmjäger.

For some reason I can't post on Missing Links but saw the thread there. There are many examples in the bocage of extremely close combat. It's a strange environment- sound is distorted and sometimes it's difficult to tell where a particular noise is coming from, and that's in calm circumstances. Factor in confusion, stress, fear, fatigue, dehydration, hunger, 'other noises'.....

If this works.... click on this link, make sure your Street View guy is facing esat, and see if you can tell what's around the corner...

It has long been an intention of mine to try and get this across in miniature form, probably using a shadow box.
One day...

Cheers

Sean