ACTION FORCE 1985 (THIRD SERIES)
GUNG-HO
Gung-Ho
Jungle Warfare Specialist.
Born: Florida, U.S.A.
Brought up in the Florida swamplands. Gung-Ho won a reputation as a tough bare-fist brawler and knife-fighter. Probably the roughest, toughest, craziest, ‘son of a gun’ to fight his way through Training Camp.
Gung-Ho came with a grenade launcher and backpack. The peak on his hat was easily damaged.
The second series Gaucho was a repaint of Gung Ho. Gung-Ho and Gaucho do have the same right arm though!
IMAGES
Ready for battle!
Body Mould
Gung Ho has a moulded hat on his head. He has a moulded moustache on his face. He has a large tattoo on his chest which is shown from an open jacket. On his top right breast he has a grenade. On his right leg he has a gun in a holster and on his right leg he has an ammo pouch and dagger in sheath.
ACCESSORIES
Gung Ho came with a grenade launcher and a backpack.
GALLERY
PACKAGING
Gung Ho came as a carded figure. The figure cards continued to have the mail order offer. You collected five medals and could then send off for a free mail order figure. The mail order figure with this series was the Infantryman.
VARIANTS
The second series Gaucho was a repaint of Gung Ho.
Below is a picture of Gung-Ho and Gaucho next to each other front and back.
LOOKS FAMILAR
There were different variants of the grenade launcher. A blue version came with the Space force Battle Gear pack. The greanade launcher also came with the German Schnellfeuer figure and the Spurhund figure (in black).
G.I. JOE U.S. RELEASE
Despite being released in the U.K. in 1985, Gung Ho was first released in the U.S. in 1983.
DATAFILE
Datafiles could be found in the Battle Action Force comics. They contained lots of information about the characters and had some great artwork.
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