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Scenario#: J097     Date: 7/16/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

After the night assault seized the bridge and a thin lodgement north of the Simeto, problems were experienced communicating to follow on units that the bridge had been captured. As the companies holding the lodgement began to come under increasing…

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Scenario#: J096     Date: 7/15/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

Despite a spirited defense of the Simeto Bridgehead, the Germans had retaken the bridge and established a bridgehead of their own south of the Simeto River. After a night of preparation, a counterstroke was launched the morning of the 15tth by the…

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Scenario#: J100     Date: 3/30/1945     Location: Menden, Germany

As March 30th dawned, the U.S. 5th Infantry Division and the 3rd Armored Division advanced on the village of Menden in an effort to seal the encirclement of the Ruhr pocket. In front of the village, the 737th Tank Battalion found itself engaged by…

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Scenario#: J094     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Melikhovo, Russia

Operation Citadel had been underway for five days and things were not going well for the German attack. The original plan to seize the town of Korocha was scrapped and 6th Panzer Division was tasked with breaking through the Soviet defenses and…

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Scenario#: J098     Date: 6/28/1944     Location: Krupki, Russia

The German High Command realized that Operation Bagration was indeed a large scale Soviet offensive. The first German reinforcements to arrive in Minsk from Ukraine were the 5th Panzer Division. Their first contact with the advancing Russian units…

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Scenario#: J099     Date: 7/22/1944     Location: San Martino, Italy

During July the German Fourteenth Army's stubborn withdrawal up the Italian peninsular slowed. The intention of the German command was to keep the Allies out of the valley of the River Arno and give their reserve divisions time to prepare the Gothic…

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Scenario#: J101     Date: 6/9/1945     Location: Bougainville Island, New Guinea

The Japanese forces holding out on northern Bougainville had established a last line of defense across the Bonis Peninsula. To the north lay Buka Island and its airstrip – a key objecive in the Allied push towards Rabaul. A plan was devised to…

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Scenario#: J093     Date: 8/5/1941     Location: Porechye, Russia

A strong combat element of the 6th Panzer Division succeeded in effecting a surprise capture of the two Luga bridges at Porechye, 60 miles southwest of Leningrad, and in forming a bridgehead. The strong armored forces which were to follow remained…

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Scenario#: J091     Date: 4/14/1941     Location: Tobruk, Libya SEIGE

Rommel launched his first attempt to take Tobruk by storm on the night of Easter Sunday. After Afrika Korps engineers succeeded in breeching the formidable anti-tank ditch, wire and mine fortifications of the outer perimeter, infantry riding on tanks…

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Scenario#: 245     Date: 9/24/1940     Location: Mai Pha, French Indochina

The Japanese had invaded Tonkin and using available dense terrain undertook a vast maneuver of encirclement on either side of the fortified city of Lansgson, threatening to isolate it by cutting Colonial Road 1. The 11th Company, 3rd Battalion of the…

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Scenario#: J095     Date: 7/14/1943     Location: Primosole Bridge, Sicily

After a disasterous landing, Alastair Pearson's 1st Airborne Battalion of the 1st Airborne Division had seized the Primosole Bridge early on July 14th. The Italian garrison manning te bridge was driven off after a brief fight, and the morning passed…

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Scenario#: J092     Date: 4/10/1942     Location: Cebu City, Cebu Island

American forces in Bataan had surrendered the day before. Now it was Cebu Island's turn to feel the weight of the Japanese attack. Realizing that they could not defend the island with the few Filipino troops pressed into service, the garrison…

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