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Scenario#: 141     Date: 4/22/1940     Location: Trondheim, Norway

After the initial landings at Oslo, the Germans began to move northward, through the valley of the Gudbrandsdalen, towards Trondheim. The Norwegians and British forces there attempted numerous blocking actions which were largely unsuccessful. One…

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Scenario#: 50     Date: 9/27/1939     Location: Przemysl, Poland

With the Soviet Union now in the war against them, those Polish units still in the field had only two alternatives: surrender to the Germans or Russians, or flight into the neighboring neutrals of Rumania or Hungary. Just miles north of the Hungarian…

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Scenario#: 83     Date: 9/5/1939     Location: Piotrkow, Poland

Despite the spirited opposition of Poland’s Army Lodz and the still-mobilizing Army Prusy, the German 1st and 4th Panzer Divisions drove deep into the heart of Poland. As the panzer divisions continued their assault, bending straight for the town of…

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Scenario#: 88     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Mont-Le-Ban, Belgium

Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division on a bypass bumped into units protecting the Belgian southern flank. This lightly-held part of the Belgian defense was occupied by units of the 10th Motorcycle Company, which had been scattered into three different…

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Scenario#: 46     Date: 5/11/1940     Location: Briedgen, Belgium

In a furious assault in the villages of Veldwezelt and Briedgen, 114 German fallschirmjagers capture two bridges across the Albert Canal and destroyed the detonator wiring. Still under desultory fire, engineers removed the explosives. Lt. Altman,…

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Scenario#: 86     Date: 9/9/1939     Location: Leczyka, Poland

Polish General Tadeusz Kutrzeba was given permission for an attack to the south by Amry Poznan. The aim was to cover the retreat of Army Pomorze. The attack used the 25th, 17th and 14th Infantry Divisions...

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Scenario#: 87     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Haderslev, Denmark

Strong German motorized forces crossed the Danish border early in the morning of April 9th. Several German armored cars were damaged or destroyed, and the Germans learned to fear the 20mm guns mounted on the Nimbus motorcycles poised for ambush at…

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Scenario#: 143     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Grebbe Hill, Holland

The Grebbe Line was the principal defensive position into Fortress Holland from the east. Following a preparatory bombardment, the outpost line was attacked at sunrise on 11 May and the defenders slowly fell back to the trenches on the hill. The…

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Scenario#: 43     Date: 9/1/1939     Location: Krojanty, Poland

By noon the first day, the German 20th Motorized Infantry Division was surging across the so-called “Polish Corridor” from the west towards the vital crossroads at Chojnice. Along the Chojnice-Naklo rail line, the German vanguard had been fought to a…

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Scenario#: 137     Date: 3/10/1937     Location: Brihuega, Spain

In spite of a non-intervention policy adopted by the League of Nations, foreign nationals flocked to Spain by the thousands. As a result, both the Nationalists and the Republicans used foreign troops to fight their war. On March 8, the Nationalists…

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Scenario#: 85     Date: 9/9/1939     Location: Pilatka, Poland

As Kunip_lgruppe Dittfurth was cutting their only path of retreat towards the Vistula. the trapped Poles of Army Prussy became more and more desperate in their attempts to break through the encirclemcnt. As darkness approached. the Poles launched yet…

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Scenario#: 142     Date: 4/24/1940     Location: Dombaas, Norway

With the sudden Allied landings at Namsos and Andalsnes, the strategic and political importance of Trondheim was brought into sharp focus. Quickly implementing alternative plans, von Falkenhorst ordered the 196th Infantry Division to clear several…

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Scenario#: 49     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Gennap, Holland

It was vital for the German 6th and 18th Armies to get across the River Maas and the Dutch defensive line just beyond it swiftly. The Dutch defensive line – the so-called “Peel Line” – was composed of MG bunkers and artillery casemates fronted by an…

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Scenario#: 90     Date: 11/17/1940     Location: Koritsa, Greece

The Italian Army erupted across the Greek border in an attempt to add Greece to the New Roman Empire and show Hitler that Italy, too, could launch a blitzkrieg attack. Mussolini’s tactically-bankrupt command had not anticipated the tenacity of the…

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Scenario#: 138     Date: 9/2/1939     Location: Mlawa, Poland

At Mlawa, the Polish 20th Infantry Division, ensconced behind extensive fortifications and minefields, was able to repulse the first frontal assault of the “Wodrig” Corps – a battlegroup of infantry and cavalry formations. General von Kuechler…

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Scenario#: 89     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Wulmerson, Belgium

On May 12th, the 7th Squadron of the 4th Lanciers and the 5th of the 3rd were hurriedly placed along the railway Tirlemont-Liege to fill the gap between the Belgian 2nd Cavalry and the French 12th Cuirassiers, west of Goosoncourt airfield. On the…

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Scenario#: 45     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Kastelli, Crete

A number of Greek regiments, understrength and poorly armed but with grim determination after the defeats of the past month, were on Crete. On the day of the German paratroop assault, one such – the 1st, numbering a bit over 1000 men – was stationed…

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Scenario#: 84     Date: 9/8/1939     Location: Ochota, Poland

A little more than a week after the invasion of Poland, German units of the 10th Army were at the gates of Warsaw. Despite some panic and confusion, the citizens were urged to help with anti-tank ditches and defenses. The 4th Panzer Division was…

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Scenario#: 140     Date: 9/14/1939     Location: Sochaczew, Poland

As the drive on Warsaw continued, the 4th Panzer Division, with SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Regiment attached, was given new orders to attack through the Warsaw suburbs of the Bzura sector, at the bend of the Vistula River, to seal off the western…

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Scenario#: 47     Date: 4/9/1941     Location: Alibunara, Yugoslavia

At the time of the invasion on 6 April, the Yugoslavian Army was in the midst of mobilization; only eleven divisions were ready to face the thirty German, fourteen Italian and five Hungarian divisions that plunged into their country. Confusion and…

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Scenario#: 44     Date: 4/9/1940     Location: Hamar-Elverum Road, Norway

During the early stages of the German invasion of Norway, two companies of paratroopers that had landed at Fornebu Airport three hours earlier than planned, loaded on buses with hopes of raiding the Norwegian army headquarters at Hamar and capture…

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Scenario#: 144     Date: 4/7/1941     Location: Pirot, Yugoslavia

On April 6th, the Wehrmacht erupted across the Yugoslavian borders. The Yugoslavs repeatedly performed individual acts of heroism -- attacking the panzers with grenades and Molotov cocktails -- but collectively the Yugoslavian army was outclassed and…

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Scenario#: 139     Date: 9/5/1939     Location: Piotrkow, Poland

With Armies Modlin and Pomorze in full retreat, the Polish High Command focused on the tactical situation in the Piortrkow sector and ordered a local counterattack to slow the German blitzkrieg. The 1st Panzer Division approached Piotrkow believing…

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Scenario#: 48     Date: 5/10/1940     Location: Witry, Belgium

400 men of Infantry Regiment “Deutschland” landed by light plane to seize crossroads near the villages of Nives and Witry deep in the Ardennes. Lt.-Col. Garski’s command, landing in fields east of his target, was informed of the presence of Belgian…

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