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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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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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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#: 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#: 66     Date: 5/24/1944     Location: Sarmi, New Guinea

The 158th Regimental Combat Team landed at Arare on the north coast of New Guinea with orders to capture Sarmi and its valuable airfields. Attacking westward, the RCT made modest gains against stiffer than anticipated resistance. The plan for the…

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Scenario#: 65     Date: 7/5/1939     Location: Nomonhan, Mongolia

In May 1939, a dispute broke out over the boundary between Soviet-controlled Outer Mongolia and Japanese-held Manchuria. After a Soviet and Mongolian combined-arms force virtually annihilated a Japanese recon party, the heavily reinforced 23rd…

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Scenario#: 64     Date: 9/12/1942     Location: Mindanao, Philippines

In their occupation of the Philippines, the Japanese created an atmosphere of escalating anger and resentment. On Mindanao, outside the village of Tamparan, a band of Muslims equipped with discarded U.S. rifles as well as their own kris and bolo…

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Scenario#: 63     Date: 2/7/1944     Location: Maungdaw, Burma

In a series of concentric flanking movements, the Japanese 55th Infantry Division enveloped the forward divisions of the XV Indian Corp, cutting off their supplies and communications. A defensive “box” was formed around the 7th Indian Division’s…

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Scenario#: 62     Date: 3/6/1942     Location: Payagyi, Burma

Following the disaster at the Sittang River in February, the troops defending Burma against the Japanese invasion fell back toward Rangoon. And from there the 7th Armoured Brigade was rushed to the rapidly collapsing front. The experienced "Desert…

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Scenario#: 61     Date: 11/24/1944     Location: Damulaan, Leyte

On Leyte in the Philippines, the U.S. 32nd Infantry Regiment seized the town of Dumulaan with ease. Several days later they received news that a large Japanese force was moving toward them. One battalion supported by artillery was to hold the point…

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Scenario#: 60     Date: 8/9/1942     Location: Deniki, Papua New Guinea

On New Guinea, the Japanese had been slowly advancing on the Kokoda Trail. The Allies’ Maroubra Force had been forced back to prepared positions at Deniki. The Australian militiamen preformed a three-company counterattack which recaptured Kokoda and…

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Scenario#: 59     Date: 8/13/1945     Location: Mutanchiang, Manchukuo

The surprise Soviet blitzkrieg across the eastern border of Manchukuo did not necessarily seal the fate of the Japanese 5th Army. The key was the quick capture of a great railroad bridge spanning the Mutan River north of the strategic city of…

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Scenario#: 58     Date: 2/7/1941     Location: Agedabia, Libya

"We Surrender" - In an attempt to halt the Italian 10th Army which was retreating south from Benghazi, Combeforce – a motor infantry battalion reinforced with artillery and armored cars – was dispatched ahead of the pursuing British 7th Armored…

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Scenario#: 57     Date: 9/10/1943     Location: Rome, Italy

Days after the armistice with Italy was signed, the German 2nd Parachute Division advanced toward Rome from the south. Several Italian formations, including the elite 21st “Grenadiers of Sardinia” Division, set up blocking positions and attempted to…

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Scenario#: 56     Date: 11/19/1941     Location: Bir el Gubi, Libya

The Italian 132nd “Ariete” Armored Division, positioned 37 miles south of Tobruk, received intelligence that an assault was imminent and prepared its defenses behind areas of low-lying ground turned boggy by heavy rains. Skillfully camouflaged, its…

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Scenario#: 55     Date: 7/11/1943     Location: Palma di Montechiaro, Sicily

Early on the morning of 11 July, Lt.Col. John Heintges’ 3rd Battalion of the 7th Infantry Regiment crossed the Palma River and advanced westward along Highway 115. As the GIs approached Palma di Montechiaro where Italian forces were know to be, white…

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Scenario#: 54     Date: 8/12/1941     Location: Yasnaya Polyana, Ukraine

In July 1941 Mussolini sent the 62,000-strong CSIR (Italian Expeditionary Corps) to the Eastern Front. Its three divisions and attached troops linked up with the Wehrmacht in Romania, where the corps vehicular transport was pooled in order to…

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Scenario#: 53     Date: 7/10/1943     Location: Syracuse, Sicily

Under the codename Operation Ladbroke, the British 1st Airlanding Brigade was to capture the Ponte Grande bridge spanning the Anapo River in eastern Sicily to allow for a quick march on Syracuse by the 5th Infantry Division. 144 gliders set off from…

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Scenario#: 52     Date: 9/9/1943     Location: Parma, Italy

Late on 8 September, the same day the armistice between Italy and the Allies was announced, elements of the 433rd Medium Tank Battalion in Fidenza were ordered to move east to Parma. There, in an attempt to keep the Germans from occupying key…

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Scenario#: 51     Date: 4/20/1943     Location: Takrouna, Tunisia

As part of 8th Army’s first attempt to crack the Enfidaville Line, the 5th New Zealand Brigade was ordered to capture the key observation point of Takrouna – a small village crowned by a group of tightly clustered buildings surrounded by cliffs, all…

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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#: 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#: 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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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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 106     Date: 9/17/1944     Location: Mont Lambert, France

Mount Lambert offered a vantage point over the key French port of Boulogne and was critical to its defense. After an aerial and artillery bombardment, the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division's 9th Brigade, following tanks of the 10th Armoured Regiment,…

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Scenario#: 97     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Heraklion, Crete

The mission of the German paratroopers approaching Heraklion was to take the town and its airfield in order to land troops of the 5th Mountain Division. As the paratroopers jumped from the Junker Ju52s, each armed with only a few grenades and a…

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Scenario#: 105     Date: 8/1/1944     Location: Saint Martin-de-Fontenay, France

In the days following Operation Spring, the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division conducted several short but sharp engagements to improve their positions. One such position was the adjoining villages of St. Andre-sur-Orne and St. Martin-de-Fontenay. The…

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Scenario#: 104     Date: 7/11/1944     Location: Hill 112, France

Hill 112 had a commanding view over the area south of Caen and attracted the best units of both combatants. On July 10th, a British combined tank and infantry force had wrested the hill from its SS defenders. That same evening, the hill was subjected…

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Scenario#: 102     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Langrune-Sur-Mer, France

The Allied landings at Normandy were quickly followed by advances into the villages that lined the coast. A detachment of the 4th Brigade Commandos pushed into the sleepy village of Langrune-sur-Mer from Sword Beach and met stiff resistance from the…

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Scenario#: 103     Date: 6/7/1944     Location: Franceville-Plage, France

The heavily defended gun battery at Merville had been attacked by paratroops, but one gun was still firing and, in the confusion, two groups of Number 3 Commando were sent to finish the job. 45 (RM) Commando was reassigned to secure the coastal town…

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Scenario#: 101     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Varaville, France

On D-Day at 0100 hours, an advance party from the 3rd Parachute Brigade descended over the Normandy countryside between the Orne and Dives rivers – the Allied invasion of Europe had begun. One of the tasks for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was…

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Scenario#: 98     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Canea, Crete

Lieutenant Alfred Genz’s 1st Company had two objectives in the airborne assault on Crete. First, to neutralize the anti-aircraft battery located south of Canea and, second, to capture a nearby wireless station. Most of his gliders touched down near…

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Scenario#: 99     Date: 5/28/1941     Location: Babali Hani, Crete

On Crete, once again the British forces had suffered defeat and were in retreat, streaming towards the beaches at Sfakia and evacuation by the Royal Navy. The pursuing German mountain troops were pressing hard, and had to be checked. The commandos of…

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Scenario#: 91     Date: 5/21/1940     Location: Beaurains, France

Quite unexpectedly, the British launched a major counterattack from Arras against the extended spearheads of Rommel’s breakthrough. The Germans were able to stop the foot soldiers but the British armor pushed on unsupported – deep into the German…

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Scenario#: 110     Date: 9/24/1944     Location: Oosterbeek, Holland

By Sunday, D-plus7, the beleaguered British 1st Airborne had contracted into a tight knot around the village, anchored by positions on the north bank of the Lower Rhine. Just across the water were friendly forces, but their every attempt to reach the…

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Scenario#: 109     Date: 9/22/1944     Location: Dreil, Holland

During Operation Market Garden, the 7th Somersets, the lead battalion of the 214th Brigade was to push through Oosterhaut and link up with Polish paratroopers at Driel. Traffic chaos in the city resulted in a planned pre-dawn attack being delayed.…

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Scenario#: 108     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Aalst, Holland

Stiff German resistance had thwarted Horrock’s plan to smash out of the XXX Corps’ bridgehead on Sunday and link with the Americans in Eindhoven in less than three hours. By nightfall on the 17th, Lt. Col. Vandeleur’s tanks had only reached…

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Scenario#: 107     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

The Germans responded quickly to the British presence at Arnhem. Walter Harzer’s 9th Panzer “Hofenstaufen” Division was ordered to mop up the paratroopers west and north of the town. A rag-tag force under Lt. Gen. Hans von Tettau was sent to overrun…

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Scenario#: 100     Date: 7/31/1943     Location: Regalbuto, Sicily

It was up to the Devonshire and Dorsetshire battalions of the 50th Infantry Division to take Regalbuto. Dominating the town was the massive ridge that ran southwest of it, and that was held by the grenadiers of the Hermann Goring Division. In a…

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Scenario#: 96     Date: 5/25/1940     Location: Calais, France

Calais, and all the troops in it, was doomed to fall – it was only a question of time. The 2nd KRR was given the task of holding the three bridges over the Marck Canal. It had a handful of light tanks and scout cars for support. …

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Scenario#: 92     Date: 5/23/1940     Location: Boulogne, France

An epic of disastrous proportions was looming for the BEF as the panzers neared the French Channel ports. If they fell, the BEF would be bereft of supplies – and evacuation. To Boulogne was shipped the 20th Guards Brigade. During the night of May…

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Scenario#: 95     Date: 5/20/1941     Location: Maleme, Crete

The glider detachments of Braun and von Plessen were ordered to capture the western approaches to the vitally important Maleme airfield and secure the right flank of the Assault Regiment before joining Major Koch and the main body at the field…

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