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Scenario#: Comp11     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Wolfheze, Holland

As they held onto one of the drop zones outside of the village of Wolfheze, British paras of the 7th King's Own Borderers had been fighting off constant German attacks. After the 4th Parachute Brigade made a successful landing, the Borderers were…

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Scenario#: Comp10     Date: 1944-08-16     Location: Le Muy, France

The landing near the Nartuby River went fine for the men of the 550th Glider infantry Battalion under the command of Lt Col. Edward I. Sachs. They were soon called to reinforce the British 2nd independent Parachute Brigade Group, which had just…

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Scenario#: Comp08     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: W Of Ste Mere L'eglise, France

On D-Day+ 1, the 82nd Airborne Division attempted to secure the Sainte-Mére-Eglíse zone by establishing roadblocks and patrolling the surrounding area. Simultaneously, the Germans prepared counterattacks. Here elements of the German 1058th Infanterie…

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Scenario#: Comp24     Date: 1935-10-06     Location: Border Region Between Eritrea And Ethiopia

After having crossed the frontier between Eritrea and Ethiopia three days earlier, the Saphys di Libya got their first sighting of the enemy. A couple of dozen poorly armed Skirmishers/Tribesmen occupied a small Amba roughly a kilometer away from the…

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Scenario#: Comp06     Date: 1944-03-01     Location: Cassino, Italy

One of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War, this operation was a series of four battles, fought by multiple divisions, for the Gustav Line and Rome beyond. Perhaps the indelible image of the battles was the struggle for Cassino and the…

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Scenario#: Comp14     Date: 1944-12-10     Location: Gey, Germany

Just before daybreak two companies from the American 83rd Infantry Division, supported by a platoon of tank destroyers, launched an assault on Gay, a key village on the northeastern edge of the Húñgen Forest. An artillery barrage prepped the village…

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Scenario#: Comp05     Date: 1944-02-05     Location: Aprilia, Italy

American parachutists, devils in baggy pants, are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-headed devils are everywhere . .…

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Scenario#: Comp22     Date: 1945-03-23     Location: Wesel, Germany

As a prelude to Operation Varsity, British and Canadian commandos were tasked with launching an amphibious assault across the Rhine to take the town of Wesel. As the commandos were ferried across, the RAF and attached artillery units pounded the town…

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Scenario#: Comp21     Date: 1945-02-17     Location: Breslau, Poland

Hitler ordered 80,000 German soldiers to stand their ground in the strategically vital, yet regally beautiful, city of Breslau. As Russian divisions encircled the ancient town, the Germans dug in. On February 16th, the Russians attacked the southern…

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Scenario#: Comp25     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Near Best, Holland

Around the time of the battle for the little town of St. Oedenrode, the 101st Airborne, 3rd Battalion, 502nd PIR, sent patrols through the Zonsche Forest, trjdng to move toward the town of Best and its bridge. German resistance was tough in the…

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Scenario#: Comp09     Date: 1944-07-15     Location: Haut-vent, France

Over a month had passed since D-Day and there had not been a breakout from Normandy and its bocage-ridden fields. A key town in attempting a break out was St. Lo. Although military intelligence failed in identifying the defensive qualities of the…

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Scenario#: Comp04     Date: 1943-04-19     Location: Warsaw, Poland

Members of various resistance groups had been resisting Nazi efforts to clear the ghetto of its interred inhabitants since January of 1943. In April, SS commander Jurgen Stroop launched a full scale assault on the starving tenants. Under the…

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Scenario#: Comp16     Date: 1944-12-20     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

The Americans were slowly encirc/ing and cutting off supply to Kampfgruppe Peiper, an elite SS taskforce of the 1st SS Panzer Abteilung that had deeply penetrated the northern flank of the Bulge. One American objective was to block a Kampfgruppe…

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Scenario#: Comp23     Date: 1935-12-25     Location: Selaclaca Amba, Ethiopia

After drinking their last bottles of wine on Christmas Eve, the Spahys di Libya were awoken by the sounds of noise and shots coming from a large group of Ethiopian attackers. The Spahys di Libya had the advantage of occupying the high ground of the…

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Scenario#: Comp20     Date: 1945-02-09     Location: Kuestrin, Poland

Marshall Zhukov's drive to Berlin had been very successful. By the end of January Russian forces were only 60 miles from the Nazi capitol. Units of the 1St Belorussian Front had bypassed German resistance within the fortress city of Kuestrin, and had…

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Scenario#: Comp07     Date: 1944-05-01     Location: Ngesebus Island, Carolina Islands

The Battle of Peleliu is in the pipeline; threatening the Allies plans is the island of Ngesehus. Reconnaissance indicate the Japanese are constructing a small auxiliary airfield on the island, to work in concert with the main airfield on the…

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Scenario#: Comp19     Date: 1945-01-15     Location: Noville, Belgium

Easy Company had been put in reserve after taking the town of Foy: the beginning of the Allies counteroffensive in the Ardennes. Now, they were tasked with taking the hotly contested town of Noville. On the 14th of January they began to move out.…

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Scenario#: Comp15     Date: 1944-12-10     Location: Strass, Germany

G Company from the 331st IR of the American 83rd ID, accompanied by a platoon of Shermans, thought they were headed through the supposedly cleared village of Strass to support the assault on Gey, to the north, on the northeast edge of the Húrtgen…

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Scenario#: Comp17     Date: 1944-12-23     Location: Monde-st.etienne, Belgium

Faced with the extreme cold, limited supplies, and a lack of air support, the men of the 401st Glider infantry held on to the southern and western perimeters around Bastogne. On the 22th, the Americans captured a roadblock on the St. Hubert Highway:…

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Scenario#: Comp12     Date: 1944-09-19     Location: Arnhem, Holland

For the men of the British 1st Airborne Division, Murphy's Law had reigned supreme since the onset of Operation Market Garden. Repeated attempts to reinforce Major John Frost's position by the bridge had so far failed. At dawn of the third day of the…

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Scenario#: Comp03     Date: 1942-09-13     Location: Elista, Russia

Hitler's Army Group A had driven deep into the southern steppes of Russia. So far and so fast, in fact, that maps were of limited use and intelligence of the opposition even less. The Germans decided to equip a long range reconnaissance force to…

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Scenario#: Comp18     Date: 1945-01-10     Location: Foy, Belgium

There was no rest for the men of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Exhausted by their defense of Bastogne, they were never the less tapped to counterattack the retreating Germans during the month of January 1945. Their officer…

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Scenario#: Comp13     Date: 1944-09-21     Location: Oosterhout, Holland

On September 20th, the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment under the leadership of Major Julian Cook had conducted an amphibious crossing on the Waal River and secured the Nijmegen Bridge. This audacious operation had cost the 504th dearly, and they…

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