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Scenario#: 74     Date: 7/21/1944     Location: Asan, Guam

As part of Operation Stevedore, the veteran 3rd Marine Division was to land on four beaches between Asan and Adelup Points on the west coast of Guam. However, Lt.-Gen. Takashina had correctly guessed the landing spots and had shifted infantry and…

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Scenario#: 67     Date: 11/22/1943     Location: Bougainville Island, New Guinea

As elements of the 3rd Marine Division pushed eastward to expand its beachhead on Bouganville, 1st Lt. Steve Cibik’s reinforced platoon was ordered to occupy a small knoll with a commanding view of Empress Augusta Bay. Shortly after arriving, the…

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Scenario#: 73     Date: 11/1/1943     Location: Cape Torokina, Bougainville

The obvious invasion sites on Bougainville were avoided in favor of a landing around Cape Torokina in Empress Augusta Bay. The usual prolonged naval bombardment was rejected in order to maximize the element of surprise. At 0710 the first wave of…

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Scenario#: 71     Date: 12/9/1944     Location: Bhamo, Burma

As part of the multi-pronged drive to re-open the northern end of the Burma Road, the Chinese New 1st Army had pushed south to the river port of Bhamo, the terminus of navigation on the Irrawaddy. The Japanese had spent some six months turning it…

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Scenario#: 70     Date: 1/22/1942     Location: Mauban, Bataan

On the 18th of January 1942, a battalion of the Japanese 16th Division began infiltrating across the slopes of Mt. Silanganan, where the terrain so rugged and densely forested that I Corps had been unable to form a continuous defensive line. On the…

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Scenario#: 72     Date: 10/7/1944     Location: Peleliu, Palau Islands

Although the island of Peleliu had been declared secure on September 30th, about a thousand Japanese remained in an area some 900 yards long by 400 yards wide. In some of the fiercest fighting of the entire Pacific campaign they had repelled in…

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Scenario#: 68     Date: 5/6/1942     Location: Corregidor, Philippines

After the fall of Bataan, the Japanese turned the full weight of their artillery and air force onto the island fortress of Corregidor. For nearly a month, massive guns up to 14 inches in caliber salvoed back and forth across the North Channel of…

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Scenario#: 69     Date: 3/29/1942     Location: Toungoo, Burma

Generalissimo Jiang Kai-shek had committed some of his best divisions to aid the British defense of Burma. One of them, the 200th, was fighting valiantly to hold the walled city of Toungoo, now nearly encircled by the Japanese. Major-General “Vinegar…

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