A Mills bomb in the British assault
The Gold Beach grenadier is about to use one of the small weapons carried alongside his rifle and other equipment. The figure draws on British infantry combat in Normandy, where defended positions could bring the fight close enough for a grenade to matter.
Britain's Mills-pattern grenade had origins in the First World War and remained familiar equipment in the Second. It is another reminder that D-Day was not fought entirely with newly invented weapons. This model gives a long-serving design a human scale: one soldier, arm raised, with his attention fixed beyond the group.
