USMC M1917A1 Machine Gunner Tarawa 1943

This is USMC M1917A1 Machine Gunner Tarawa 1943 from Soldier Story. It's featured from The Pacific TV Series. This figurine characters is named Sgt.J.P Morgan played by Joshua Biton.The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region. The Battle of Tarawa was one of the bloodiest episodes in the history of the United States Marine Corps, which saw a total of nearly 1,000 Marines killed. The 2nd Marine Division suffered 894 (48 officers and 846 men) killed in action, with another 84 (8 officers and 76 men) later dying of their wounds. A further 2,188 (102 officers and 2,086 men) men were wounded. Of the roughly 12,000 2nd Marine Division Marines on Tarawa, 3,166 officers and men became casualties.Only one Japanese officer, 16 enlisted men and 129 Koreans were alive at the end of the battle. Of the 4,836 Japanese and Korean laborers that made up the garrison, 4,690 were killed.

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This is the front view and the back view of the box.

The figurine with all it's accesories

A Beginning Of My Toys Cataloging.

Today is 27th.April 2012. I have been collecting toys for quites some times. I used to collection Transformer's Toys, Gandum but due to certain circumstances, I have moved on to collect 1/6 scale figures. Most of this figures are from Hot Toys and Enterbay company. Somes I do slips in fews 1/6 figure from other company. Anyway, the main purpose of me doing this is to catalogue every each one of this figurines for my future referenced. This is not a toy review but mainly a collections. Enjoy.