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Scenario#: N13     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: Amfreville, France

After a night of uncertainty and confusion, dawn was a lime for the German force based in Amfreville to assess their situation. Little enough was known for certain. Although Divisional headquarters was only a few kilometers down the road, all …

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Scenario#: N09     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: Outside Amfreville, France

Lt. Colonel Timmes landed alone in the flooded marsh and took some time to free himself from his harness. By 04:00 he had gathered ten men. Two gliders landed nearby and the number rose to thirty. The band grew steadily …

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Scenario#: N02     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: Cauquigny, France

After passing the manoir, Captain Ben Schwarzwalder pressed on across the causeway. On the far bank, he found Lieutenant Louis Levy in charge of a mixed group of 507th and 508 paratroopers. Assuming wrongly, and tragically, that the bridgehead was …

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Scenario#: 27     Date: 13 June 1944     Location: Longueville, France

After the American 29th Infantry Division secured a beachhead in Normal-tab), it moved inland where the same German 352nd Infantry Division that opposed it on the coast now awaited it in the infamous bocage, a series of small fields enclosed …

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Scenario#: N14     Date: 8 June, 1944     Location: North Of Amfreville, France

Lt Col. Timmes’ night patrols paid off. Lieutenant John Marr and Private Norman Carter stumbled upon the secret ford, and crossed to rendezvous with General Ridgeway at the Division CP. The General’s staff called on the 1st Battalion of the …

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Scenario#: 26     Date: 6 June 1944     Location: Omaha Beach, France

The D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, was the largest sea invasion in history, but overwhelming numbers did not guarantee success. The 116th Regiment of the American 29th Infantry Division landed in the area designated “Omaha Beach” along …

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Scenario#: 28     Date: 18 July 1944     Location: Saint-Lo, France

Six weeks after Dday, the 29th infantry Division was still fighting in the hedgerows of Normandy, apposed by the German 352nd Infantry Division. The vital crossroads town Saint Lo was a key objective to the breakout of Normandy. On …

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Scenario#: N07     Date: 9 June, 1944     Location: La Fiere Manoir, France

3rd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment had until recently been 2nd Battalion, 401 Glider Infantry. Now attached to the 325th, some resentment was felt by the orphaned unit. Resentment worsened on the approach march to La Fiere, as their…

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Scenario#: N05     Date: 8 June, 1944     Location: Near Cauquigny, France

Landing on 7 June, the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment spent much of the day mai'ching and counter-marching. Late in the day, 1st Battalion was despatched across the ‘secret ford’ through the marshes to bolster Colonel Timmes’ 2/507th in their orchard…

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Scenario#: N06     Date: 9 June, 1944     Location: La Fiere Manoir, France

George Company was assigned to the assault over the Merderet. In advance of his company, Captain Sauls reconnoitred the way forward, hauled aside the 507th Regiment’s dead from the road ahead, and waited for the promised smoke barrage. The deadline …

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Scenario#: 23     Date: 6 June 1944     Location: Pointe du Hoc, France

As part of Operation Overlord, the American Ranger battalions attempted to capture gun batteries at Pointe du Hoc after making a cliff assault under enemy fire. However, upon reaching their target, they discovered their information was wrong and were…

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Scenario#: N11     Date: 9 June, 1944     Location: West Of Amfreville, France

On the night of the 6lh June, George V Millett, Colonel of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, had come down in a grain field about a thousand yards south of the DZ. He gathered a small force and struck east …

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Scenario#: N04     Date: 7 June, 1944     Location: La Fiere Manoir, France

Overnight, the position was reinforced but pressure on the defenders of the east bank was maintained by mortar and artillery fire. A dawn air supply drop relieved the most pressing ammunition shortage. The recently arrived reinforcements pulled out…

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Scenario#: 25     Date: 18 July 1944     Location: Vimont, France

A month after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, the Allied armies were still trying to break out of the Normandy beachhead. Operation Goodwood was conceived to shatter German defenses with a massive air bombardment prior to the ground …

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Scenario#: 22     Date: 6 June 1944     Location: Bénouville, France

During the final hours of June 5th, 1944, the British 6th Airborne Division landed behind Sword Beach to secure the eastern flank. Repelling counter-attacks, the 6th Airborne awaited relief from the forthcoming British commandos who stormed Sword…

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Scenario#: 29     Date: 19 Nov 1944     Location: Julich, Germany

After the breakout from Normandy in late July, the 29th Infantry Division participated in the successful siege of the port city of Brest where, by September 19, the 40,000 man German garrison became casualties or prisoners of war. The 29th …

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Scenario#: 24     Date: 6 June 1944     Location: Breville, France

Like their American counterparts, British airborne troops captured key objectives on D-Day June 6, I944. The British “paras ” were immediately counterattacked by. elements of the German 346th Infantry Division, a former static fortress unit upgraded…

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Scenario#: N12     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: Les Heutes, France

By mid morning, Timmes had over a hundred men digging in around the buildings and gardens of the small hamlet of les Heutes. Timmes’ own CP was established under the trees of a bocage-lined orchard. One detail requisitioned the farmer’s …

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Scenario#: N01     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: La Fiere Manoir, France

Following their successful drop, intact and in almost perfect order, Able Company of the 505th P.I.R. moved speedily to their D Day objective: the Merderet bridge at La Fiere. The large manor house adjacent to the river bridge had been …

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Scenario#: N15     Date: 8 June, 1944     Location: Les Heutes, France

By D+2, Timmes had the enormous psychological boost of a telephone line across the marsh to the far shore. He had also the shaken glidermen who had fallen back to the orchard after the confusion of the night. As dawn …

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Scenario#: N03     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: La Fiere Manoir, France

After taking the La Fiere manoir, Captain Schwarzwalder’s contingent crossed over the causeway. Finding no enemy present at Cauquigny, they moved out to the north, seeing no need to garrison Uie west end of the causeway. Able Company, still unaware …

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Scenario#: N08     Date: 9 June, 1944     Location: Around Cauquigny, France

The plan was that George Company should deploy to the left of the causeway, Easy to the right. But in the turmoil of the crossing, units were mingled inextricably. By the time Captain Harney’s Fox Company came on the scene, …

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Scenario#: N10     Date: 6 June, 1944     Location: Cauquigny, France

Captain Ben Schwarzwalder was elated to find Cauquigny already in friendly hands. Now there was no need to fight for possession of the Cauquigny bridge head, which seemed firmly held, he felt he had completed the task given him by …

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