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Staraya Russa Scenario#: 4113 Date: 9/1/1941 Location: Staraya, Russia The Northwest Front, under the energetic Chief of Staff Vatutin, decided to attack the Axis forces south of Staraya Russa. It was hoped that this would divert Army Group North's energies away from Leningrad. Indeed, von Leeb over-reacted to the … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Tikhvin Scenario#: 4116 Date: 12/1/1941 Location: Tikhvin, Russia As the final assault on Leningrad ground to a halt, Army Group North made one last bid to link up with the Finns who were advancing to the east of Lake Ladoga. Because of the difficult campaign they had been … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Pripet Marsh Scenario#: 4149 Date: 7/16/1941 Location: Pripet Marsh, Russia Operation Barbarossa in July was well under way. Such was the success and speed of the German advance that the supply lines were severely overstretched. Many of the previously bypassed Soviet units began to coordinate limited counter-attacks on Axis… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Panzer Lehr Counter Attacks Scenario#: 4152 Date: 7/11/1944 Location: Saint-Jean-de-Daye, France On July 11th, the very day XIX Corps was scheduled to extend its attack eastward of the Vire River, the corps' right flank came under the threat of a massive armored counter-attack. The Germans, hell bent on knocking the First … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Capture of Parry Scenario#: 4154 Date: 2/22/1944 Location: Parry Island, Ralik Group Parry Island, the third largest island in the northwester Ralik Group, was the last major objective scheduled to be taken by Operation Catchpole. BrigGen Watson had initially planned the assault on Parry for February 21, but the capture of other … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Pruzana Scenario#: 4155 Date: 6/30/1941 Location: Pruzana, Russia On June 30, 1941, German Panzer forces broke through all along the front and in this sector advanced toward the town of Pruzana. However, air reconnaissance reported a Russian infantry detachment from General Oborin's XIV Mechanized Corps had… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Kamenewo Scenario#: 4156 Date: 10/6/1941 Location: Kamenewo, Russia As part of Operation Typhoon, Kampfgruppe Eberbach of the 4th Panzer Division advanced on the Russian capital. By the evening of October 5th however, Colonel Katukov's newly formed 4th Tank Brigade had deployed near the woodland east of Kamenewo.… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Martinville Ridge Scenario#: 4172 Date: 7/16/1944 Location: Saint-Lo, France On July 15, the 116th Regiment started a flanking maneuver around Martinville in an effort to outflank the town's defenders. The lead elements made good progress but Allied Command didn't have a clear picture of the situation on the ground … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Capturing the Crossing Scenario#: 4185 Date: 6/26/1944 Location: Cheux, France The main thrust of Operation Epsom began at 0700 hrs. on June 26th. Early British progress was good, with solid artillery support and even some naval gunfire. It looked like the way was clear. The forward German positions, however, were … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Withdrawal from Hill 112 Scenario#: 4186 Date: 6/29/1944 Location: Baron, France On June 29, Operation Epsom entered its fourth day. The British were holding onto a salient that incorporated high ground known as Hill 112 on the far side of the Odon River, near the village of Baron. The British 11th … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Securing the Flank Scenario#: 4187 Date: 6/25/1944 Location: Fontenay le Pesnel, France In preparation for Montgomery's Operation Epsom, the 49th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Polar Bears because of their arm patch, was ordered to take the town of Fontenay le Pesnel. Their second objective was to secure Raury and the heights that … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
The Rescue of Mussolini Scenario#: 4211 Date: 9/12/1943 Location: Campo Imperatore, Italy After Italy surrendered to the Allies, Mussolini was arrested and held by the Italians in the hotel Campo Imperatore on the Gran Sasso mountain. After intercepting a coded Italian radio message and reconnoitering the mountain by plane, Otto Skorzeny… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Mont Pinçon Scenario#: 4258 Date: 8/6/1944 Location: Mont Pinçon, France The Battle of Mont Pinçon took place over the course of several days, the culmination of Operation Bluecoat. On August 6th, the British XXX Corps attacked about five miles south of Aunay-Sur-Odon. The Axis repelled the initial assault by the … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Saint-Martin and Bull Bridge Scenario#: 4272 Date: 7/31/1944 Location: Saint-Martin, France Operation Bluecoat was supposed to begin with a massive aerial bombardment, but poor weather made the Allies miss entirely. Nonetheless, the British forces pushed forward, where they came under artillery and mortar bombardment amidst highly uneven… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Breakout at Sedan Scenario#: 4320 Date: 5/13/1940 Location: Sedan, France French General Staff thought it was impossible for tanks to cross the massif of the Ardennes. Because of that assumption, French forces were completely surprised when, on the evening of May 12, General Guderian and his Panzer Divisions appeared… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Bodange Scenario#: 4321 Date: 5/10/1940 Location: Bodange, Belgium After they had crossed the Belgian border, German units of the 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions ran up against the defensive positions of the 1st Division of Chasseurs Ardennais. Commandant Bricart's 5th Company was ordered to resist at all costs … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Bouvignes Bridgehead Scenario#: 4322 Date: 5/13/1940 Location: Bouvignes, France General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division arrived at the river Meuse on May 13. On the island of Houx, soldiers of the 7th Motorcycle Battalion discovered locks that the infantry could use to cross the canal. The first bridgehead was set … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Battle of Hannut -Merdorp Scenario#: 4472 Date: 5/13/1940 Location: Hannut, Belgium After having crossed the Meuse river at Maastricht, the 4th Panzer division arrived in the region of Hannut. Once there, the Germans confronted the French Cavalry Corps of General Prioux, which had moved into Belgium as part of the Dyle … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Dunkirk Scenario#: 4525 Date: 5/27/1940 Location: Dunkirk, France Operation Dynamo was an evacuation of Allied troops from the port town of Dunkirk from 27 May to 4 June, 1940. The operation's name came from the evacuation that was planned in the dynamo (generator) room of Dover Castle. Over … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 1
Coldstream Hill Scenario#: 4625 Date: 7/30/1944 Location: Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, France Taking advantage of the departure of two Panzer Divisions hastily sent west to counter the 1st US Army's Operation Cobra, Montgomery sends the 2nd British Army to the assault of the Virois bocage in Operation Bluecoat. Their first objectives are … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Maquis of Malleval Scenario#: 5683 Date: 1/29/1944 Location: Malleval-en-Vercors, France The maquis of Malleval, a rural guerrilla band of the French Resistance, was composed of 50 men under the command of Lieutenant Eysseric (code name "Durand"). The group's base of operations was the isolated village of Malleval-en-Vercors, on the… Memoir '44 — Vercors Campaign
Battle of Saint Nizier Scenario#: 5754 Date: 6/13/1944 Location: Saint Nizier, France With its cliffs, steep slopes and limited access points, the Vercors plateau is a natural and easily defended fortress. Familiar with the terrain, the heads of the French Resistance immediately saw its value as a defensive bastion deep within… Memoir '44 — Vercors Campaign
Massacre at Vassieux-en-Vercors Scenario#: 5933 Date: 7/21/1944 Location: Vassieux-en-Vercors, France On July 20, 1944, following several weeks of troops build-up, the Germans launched their attack on the newly proclaimed "Free Republic of Vercors". The next morning, the German 157.Reserve-Division, bolstered with Ukrainian troops from Eastern… Memoir '44 — Vercors Campaign
Battle of Valchevrière Scenario#: 5973 Date: 7/22/1944 Location: Valchevrière, France On July 22, 1944, the Germans launched a new assault on Valchevrière, a village under the protection of Captain Goderville and his group of French Resistance fighters. The maquisards' mission was to deny the Germans access to the west and … Memoir '44 — Vercors Campaign
Kota Bharu Scenario#: 6042 Date: 12/8/1941 Location: Kota Bharu, Malaysia The Battle of Malaya began on the morning of December 8th with an amphibious assault on the strategically important RAF base at Kota Bharu. The air field was protected by the multiple arms of the Kelantan River, and defended by … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Breaking the Jitra Line Scenario#: 6043 Date: 12/10/1941 Location: Jitra, Malaysia Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, British General Officer Commanding Malaya, tried to slow down the Japanese advance by ordering bridges to be blown up along the Trunk Road. The Japanese devised a method to overcome this British strategy. Infantry… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Kampar Scenario#: 6046 Date: 12/30/1941 Location: Kampar, Malaysia The battered and desperately understrength remnants of the 11th Indian Infantry Division withdrew from Gurun to take up positions in the Kampar area under their new commander, General Archibald Paris. They dug-in between the jungle around the Sungai… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Gemencheh Bridge Scenario#: 6049 Date: 1/14/1942 Location: Gemas, Malaysia The 8th Australian Division's commander, Major-General Gordon Bennett, was given command of all forces in the west of Malaya (Westforce). Bennett brought 8th Australian Division with him to relieve the broken 11th Indian Division, and believed that… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Slim River Scenario#: 6051 Date: 1/7/1941 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Successive outflanking maneuvers down the west coast of Malaya by the Japanese, forced General Percival to create a new defense line to the south in Johore state. Percival urged Lieutenant-General Lewis "Piggy" Heath, commander of III Indian Corps,… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Ban Sadao Scenario#: 6053 Date: 12/8/1941 Location: Ban Sadao, Malaysia Malaya's supposed first line of defense, the formidable British battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse, were languishing at Singapore. Untroubled by them, the Japanese 5th Division landed at Singora and Patani in Thailand, and simultaneously… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Gurun Scenario#: 6068 Date: 12/14/1941 Location: Gurun, Malaysia The severely depleted and desperately tired men of the 11th Indian Division of III Indian Corps under Major-General David Murray-Lyon were retreating in disorder from Jitra. They stopped in the gap between the heavily forested Kedah Peak and the… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Bakri Scenario#: 6084 Date: 1/16/1942 Location: Parit Jawa, Malaysia While the Japanese 5th Division was engaged in a fierce battle around Gemas to the east, the Konoe Imperial Guards Division under Lieutenant-General Nishimura attacked down the west coast of Malaya. Facing them were elements of the 8th Australian… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Battle for the Passes Scenario#: 6088 Date: 7/21/1944 Location: Massif of Grand Veymont, France As July 1944 drew to its end, the troops of German 157.Reserve-Division had the Vercors Plateau virtually surrounded. The only ground still out of their reach were the mountain passes (or "Pas") protecting the access to the East of the … Memoir '44 — Vercors Campaign
Singapore Scenario#: 6089 Date: 2/9/1942 Location: Singapore, Singapore With his troops' morale crumbling, and believing he faced 5 Japanese divisions and 300 tanks, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival made the decision to withdraw to Singapore. General Bennett paid a final visit to his friend the Sultan of Johore and… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
The San Fratello Line Scenario#: 6555 Date: 8/4/1943 Location: Nicetta, Sicily After capturing Palermo, Patton and his 7th Army advanced along the north coast of Sicily with the unavowed objective of entering Messina before the British 8th Army of General Montgomery. But Axis forces delay Patton's advance, systematically… Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
Mignano Monte Lungo Scenario#: 6557 Date: 11/5/1943 Location: Mignano, Italy After crossing the Volturno river, the 3rd US Infantry Division managed to advance to Cassino before finding itself blocked by the "Barbara" line at Mignano. Well entrenched on Monte Lungo and Monte Rotondo, the Germans soldiers of the… Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
Crossing the Volturno Scenario#: 6558 Date: 10/13/1943 Location: Monte Majulo, Italy After coming out of the bridgehead they've established at Salerno, elements of the 5th US Army reach the southern bank of the Volturno river on the 5th of October 1943. During the night of October 12-13, British and US troops … Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
cisterna di Littoria Scenario#: 6564 Date: 5/23/1944 Location: cisterna di Littoria, Italy By the middle of May 1944, General Clark has decide he's had enough. Determined to finish his opponent off, he launches the 6th US Army Corps on the little town of cisterna di Littoria, the centerpiece of the German defense … Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
Alpha Yellow Scenario#: 6568 Date: 8/15/1944 Location: Pampelonne, France August 15, 1944 marks D-Day for the Allied landing in Provence. In the morning, 3rd US Infantry Division (Alpha Force) lands at Cavalaire (Red Beach) and Pampelonne (Yellow Beach). Demoralized and reluctant to fight, the Germans offer little… Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
The Quarry of Cleury Scenario#: 6590 Date: 10/1/1944 Location: Cleurie, France At the beginning of October 1944, after freeing up the city of Besançon, the 3rd US Infantry Division is engaged in the Vosges Mountains. Near the village of Cleurie, they find themselves stopped by a German party entrenched on nearby … Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
The capture of Biesheim Scenario#: 6592 Date: 2/3/1945 Location: Biesheim, France In Alsace, combats are drawing to an end; the Colmar pocket is being reduced by the 1st French Army, and the troops of the German XIX.Armee, decimated and demoralized. are withdrawing toward Chalampé bridge over the Rhine in a bid … Memoir '44 — Audie Murphy's Campaign
Drop In The Night: 82nd Scenario#: 6687 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France During the night June 5-6 1944, paratroopers of the three parachute regiments of the 82nd "All American" US Airborne Division were dropped over the Cotentin peninsula. Their objective: to secure their drop zone, capture Sainte-Mère-Eglise and the… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Drop in the Night: The 101st Scenario#: 6696 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Turqueville, France During the night June 5-6 1944, the 101st US Airborne Division "Screaming Eagles" was one of two divisions dropped on the Cotentin peninsula. Its objectives were to secure the beach exits, capture the lock at la Barquette, destroy the bridges … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
The Coup de Main Scenario#: 6702 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Merville, France During the night June 5-6 1944, units of the 6th (British) Airborne Division were dropped east of Caen, between the Orne and Dives rivers. Their objective was: to capture the bridges on the Orne river and the canal (later made … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
The Hedgerow Breach Scenario#: 6726 Date: 7/25/1944 Location: Canisy, France After the capture of Saint-Lô, 1st US Army, under the command of General Bradley, found itself in position to launch a major offensive to breakthrough the German lines; they had suffered so much attrition they had reached their breaking point. … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
The Charging Bull Scenario#: 6769 Date: 7/18/1944 Location: Bourguébus, France After the capture of Caen on July 10, Montgomery aimed to deliver a major blow to his enemies with the help of the 2nd British Army. This Operation, code-named Goodwood, would launch three armored divisions of VIIIth Army Corps east … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
The Scottish Corridor Scenario#: 6822 Date: 6/26/1944 Location: Tourmauville, France After the set back of Operation Perch at Villers-Bocage, Montgomery launched a new offensive with VIIIth British Corps in order to outflank Caen on the right. On June 26, Operation Epsom began with an infantry attack; the 15th Scottish Division … Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Cut of the Cotentin Scenario#: 6836 Date: 6/14/1944 Location: Cotentin, France Unable to advance toward Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, the 90th US Infantry Division was soon replaced by two other divisions: the 82nd US Airborne Division and the 9th US Infantry Division. From June 14 on, the American advance westward found itself… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Tigers versus Kangaroos Scenario#: 6882 Date: 8/7/1944 Location: Cintheaux, France While the German Panzer divisions were fighting the Americans around Mortain (Unternehmen Luttich), the 1st Canadian Army attempted to break through the open ground around Caen, advancing toward Falaise. In the night of August, 7th, they attacked… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2
Take Falaise Scenario#: 6894 Date: 8/14/1944 Location: Falaise, France After Operation Totalize, Montgomery insisted on the necessity to take Falaise so the 1st Canadian Army quickly launched a new offensive: Operation Tractable. After a massive air bombing campaign, the 2nd Canadian Army Corps and 1st Polish Armored… Memoir '44 — Campaign Book Vol 2