Ambulance Corps

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After being hit, the wounded soldiers fells on the battlefield hoping to be picked up by one of his comrades or an ambulance man searching the battlefield for casualties. Lineol produced two different types of casualties lying on the ground. One Lineol model represents a soldiers lying on his back with his rifle next to him while the other model shows a soldier lying on his belly still wearing his backpack. The same type of model was also produced by Haußer but without the backpack. These figures are modelled in a way that the laying soldiers are unconscious.

Casualties made by Lineol

There are a rumours amongst collectors that this type of models were banned from the stores by the Nazis during the the Second World War, but this cannot be verified by the any of the sources available to the author. In fact, these figures are not very hard to find at auctions and toy fairs and they can still be obtained for a reasonable price.

Casualty made by Hausser/Elastolin
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