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Operation Goodwood Scenario#: 9     Date: 7/18/1944     Location: Cagny, France Around 8 AM on July 18th, after an aerial bombardment of more than two hours' duration, Operation 'Goodwood" started. Caen was being cleared successfully by the Canadian Corps, while the 11th Armored Division moved forward followed by the Guards… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Twin Villages Scenario#: 21     Date: 12/17/1944     Location: Krinkekt, Belgium The Ardennes offensive began in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, 16th December 1944. The northernmost element of the German attack was an attempt by the 67th Corps in the Monschau forest to push through the left wing of the US … Memoir '44 — Paper Wars Magazine #57
Operation Spring Scenario#: 26     Date: 7/25/1944     Location: Tilly-la-Campagne, France Operation Spring called for the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions supported by the 7th Guards Armored Division to make a deliberate attack in the direction of Falaise. The first phase of the plan was the capture of May-sur-Orne, Verrieres Ridge … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Attack on Hill 192 Scenario#: 27     Date: 7/11/1944     Location: La Croix-Rouge, France The attack on Hill 192 was only one part of a larger operation east of the Vire directed at St-Lo. This dominating height had been a thorn in the flank of the 1st army for some time. The enemy forces … Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #52
Strasbourg Scenario#: 28     Date: 1/11/1945     Location: Strasbourg, France On the 7th of January 1945, the German Nineteen Army initiated an attack south of Strasbourg against the First French Army. Code-named 'Sonnenwende' ("Winter Solstice"), the operation led by the 198th Volksgrenadier Division and 106th Panzer Brigade… Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #58
Sword Beach Overlord Scenario#: 34     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sword Beach, France The landings on Sword Beach according to the assault plan had the DD tanks of the 13th and 18th Hussars land just before the British infantry units. But as on the other beaches this day, heavy seas slowed the approach … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Juno Beach Scenario#: 38     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Juno Beach, France The Canadian troops were assigned to land at Juno beach on D-Day and push inland. Juno had been divided into two beaches, 'Mike' and 'Nan'. The 7th Canadian Brigade Group under Brigadier HW Foster would land on Mike and the … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Gold Beach Scenario#: 41     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Gold Beach, France The German defenses at Gold consisted of two battalions of the 726th Regiment supported by inland batteries. Barbed wire and a few anti-tank hedgehog obstacles protected the entire stretch of beach. The British planners had divided Gold beach into… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Utah Beach Scenario#: 42     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Utah Beach, France The American plan was that following the air and naval bombardment, the 8th Regiment would land first followed by Duplex Drive (DD) tanks. Utah was divided into a northern beach 'Tare' and a southern beach 'Uncle'. When Brigadier General Theodore … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Carentan Scenario#: 1222     Date: 6/13/1944     Location: Carentan, France The town of Carentan was the key to the American drive west to cut off the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. After two days of fighting and desperately short of ammunition, the Germans pulled their forces out of Carentan and … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Carentan Causeway Scenario#: 1225     Date: 6/11/1944     Location: Carentan, France Rommel realized the danger to the Axis defenses should Carentan fall, for it was the link between the two US beaches and also the key to an American drive west to cut the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. The defense … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Valkenswaard Scenario#: 1230     Date: 9/17/1944     Location: Valkenswaard, Holland At 2:35 September 17, Kieth Heathcote, commander of the leading tank troop, ordered his tanks forward. The objective, just a short three hours drive down the southernmost stretch of road soon to become know as Hell's Highway, was Eindhoven. The … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Relief of Peiper Scenario#: 1242     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Trois Ponts, Belgium Ordered to move to the relief of Kampfgruppe 'Peiper', Max Hansen on December 21st started probing with his battlegroup between Trois Ponts and Grand Halleux. The 505th Parachute Regiment had established a defensive front to defend or blow the… Memoir '44 — Fire & Movement Magazine #137
Bastogne Corridor West Scenario#: 1252     Date: 12/30/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium On December 30th German High Command's plan to capture Bastogne called for a push from the west simultaneously with another from the east. The object of these two forces was to pinch the corridor at Assenois south of the town. … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Bastogne Corridor East Scenario#: 1253     Date: 12/30/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium On December 30th German High Command's plan to capture Bastogne called for a push from the west simultaneously with another from the east. The object of these two forces was to pinch the corridor at Assenois south of the town. … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Bastogne Overlord Scenario#: 1254     Date: 12/30/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium On December 30th German High Command's plan to capture Bastogne called for a push from the west simultaneously with another from the east. The object of these two forces was to pinch the corridor at Assenois south of the town. … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Across the Meuse Scenario#: 1287     Date: 5/13/1940     Location: Dinant, Belgium In 1940, the German plan was for Army Group B to overrun Holland and then move more slowly into Belgium to lure the bulk of the Allied armies in the Low Countries. Army Group A would then drive through the … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Gallabat & Metemma Scenario#: 1289     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Metemma, Ethiopia Gallabat-Metemma was Britain's first land offensive of the East Africa campaign. On November 6th, 1940 Brigadier J.W. Slim led the British assault. Under his command were; the 10th Indian Brigade, 12 tanks from the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and some … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Counter-Attack at Arras Scenario#: 1290     Date: 5/21/1940     Location: Agny, France Thanks to the unfolding success of their Blitz, the Germans rapidly pushed the Allied armies back, forcing the British Expeditionary Force to seize the town of Arras and dig-in, to try and hold the German tide there. But these forces … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Longvilly Trap Scenario#: 1310     Date: 12/19/1944     Location: Longvilly, Belgium Six days before Christmas: German armor has come to within a few miles of the city of Bastogne. Unwilling to give up this important traffic center, the Americans organize a defense perimeter around the town. In the late afternoon, Combat … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Lipovec Scenario#: 1312     Date: 7/22/1941     Location: Lipovec, Ukraine Operating in central Ukraine as part of the 17th German Army, a Slovakian motorized brigade, named after its commander, Brig. General Rudolf Pilfousek, was ordered on July 22nd to capture the town of Lipovec. Made up of mechanized armor, infantry … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Tunisia Scenario#: 1326     Date: 12/1/1942     Location: Tebourba, Tunisia On November 29th and 30th it was tough going for the still largely green Allied Combat Command. The Allies had launched two unsuccessful attacks to take the town of Djedeida and clear a path for the march on Tunis. Then … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Yellow Beach Scenario#: 1327     Date: 8/19/1942     Location: Dieppe, France The 23rd British Assault Craft force heading toward the Yellow Beaches sailed into the path of a German convoy. The German ships opened fire and after a brisk engagement, the British commanders agreed that the landings at Yellow Beaches should … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Moyland Wood Scenario#: 1337     Date: 2/17/1945     Location: Moyland Wood, Germany On the afternoon of the 16th the Royal Winnipeg Rifles supported by the 3rd Armor Battalion Scots Guards was ordered to take the hilly ground around Louisendorf. On its left the Regina Rifle Regiment with tank support was to clear … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Moyland Wood Overlord Scenario#: 1341     Date: 2/17/1945     Location: Moyland Wood, Germany On the afternoon of February 16th, 1945, the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, supported by 3rd Armor Battalion Scots Guards, was ordered to take the hilly ground around Louisendorf; on its left, the Royal Regina Rifles, with tank support, was to clear … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Baraque de Fraiture (Parkers Crossroads) Scenario#: 1363     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: Fraiture, Belgium Under orders from command to "hold at all costs", Major Arthur C. Parker of the 589th Field Artillery unit assembled a makeshift force of glider and parachute infantry, armored infantry, a few anti-tank guns and some Sherman tanks at the … Memoir '44 — 2007 Xmas Card
Russian Breakout Scenario#: 1490     Date: 7/21/1941     Location: Monastyryshche, Russia By late July the Russian 6th and 12th Armies are in full retreat, trying desperately to avoid encirclement by the German Seventeenth Army. General Tyulenev, the southern front commander, orders Musychenenko (6th Army) and Ponedelin (12th Army) to… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Sea of Azov Scenario#: 1491     Date: 9/26/1941     Location: Melitopol, Russia On September 26, 1941, Soviet units from the 9th and 18th Army attack the northern flank of the German 11th Army. The 1st Mountain Division and the "LSSAH" Motorized Division are rushed into position to bolster the German lines. Although … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Battle for Rostov Scenario#: 1492     Date: 11/26/1941     Location: Rostov, Russia The Battle for Rostov was a seesaw battle. Army Group South, with Ewald von Kleist's 1st Panzer Army in the vanguard, had taken the city by November 21st. But the German lines were over-extended and no longer in position … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Beda Fomm Scenario#: 1513     Date: 2/5/1941     Location: Beda Fomm, Libya On February 4th O'Connor with armored cars leading the way followed by 4 Armd Bde, move out to trap the Italians. The going was bad and a fast-wheeled vanguard was dispatched under the command of Lt-Col Combe to set up … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Battle of the Bridgehead Scenario#: 1583     Date: 6/7/1944     Location: Carpiquet, France On D-Day +1 the Canadians sought to achieve their final D-Day objectives and push through to the airfields at Carpiquet. Elements of the 9th Brigade consisting of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and armour provided by the Sherbrooke Fusiliers… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Kasserine Pass Scenario#: 1584     Date: 2/15/1943     Location: Kasserine Pass, Tunisia After the Anglo-American landings in North Africa on November 8, 1942, the Americans remained optimistic about their ability to fight an opponent like Rommel and the Afrika Korps. Although in headlong retreat after the Battle of El Alamein, Rommel… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
The Battle of Hong Kong Scenario#: 1638     Date: 12/18/1941     Location: Hong Kong, China The Japanese attack on Hong Kong began on the mainland shortly after 8am on December 8, 1941, less than eight hours after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The British, Canadian and Indian forces of Major-General Christopher Michael Maltby,… Memoir '44 — Online Only
Defense of Meiktila Scenario#: 1639     Date: 3/14/1945     Location: Meiktila, Burma By early March of 1945, the 17th Indian Division in Burma, under the command of British Major-General David Tennent "Punch" Cowan captured the city of Meiktila, taking just 4 days to defeat the nearly 4000 Japanese who held it. The … Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #96
Po Valley Scenario#: 1879     Date: 4/14/1945     Location: Mount Montello, Italy In the last months of the World War II, between February and April 1945, the Wehrmacht built, not so far from Montese, along the Gothic Line's last limit ("The Green Line II"), a fortified defensive system. It was organized around … Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Mabatang Scenario#: 3468     Date: 1/11/1942     Location: Mabatang, Phillipines The first major battle of the "Fighting Retreat" occurred south of Calaguiman River. Supported by artillery, the 57th Infantry, set up a line of defense extending from Manila Bay through Mabatang across open ground. The Japanese 65th Brigade and 9th… Memoir '44 — Online - No Air Rules
Rzhev Overlord Scenario#: 4669     Date: 1/26/1942     Location: Rzhev, Russia The Soviet counter-offensive in December 1941 sent the German Wehrmacht reeling back from the outskirts of Moscow. In a pincer move on the Northern front, near Rzhev, the Soviets bludgeoned their way through Ninth Army, leaving the Germans in… Memoir '44 — Online Only
Rzhev Scenario#: 4670     Date: 1/26/1942     Location: Rzhev, Russia The Soviet counter-offensive in December 1941 sent the German Wehrmacht reeling back from the outskirts of Moscow. In a pincer move on the Northern front near Rzhev, the Soviets bludgeoned their way through the Ninth Army, leaving the Germans in … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Six Days Run Scenario#: 4769     Date: 8/30/1942     Location: Alam el Halfa, Egypt El Alamein, mid-August 1942 ? With British reinforcements on the way, Rommel knows waiting is no longer an option. His plan is to concentrate his entire mobile forces on the southern flank of the enemy, between Qaret el Abd and … Memoir '44 — Online Only
Camel Blue Scenario#: 5518     Date: 8/15/1944     Location: Provence, France On August 15, 1944, three Infantry Divisions from VI Corps under the command of the Seventh Army landed on the beaches of Provence. The 36th US Infantry Division landed on three beaches: Camel Red in St-Raphaël, Camel Green on Dramont … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Counter-Attack at Sverchkovo Scenario#: 5519     Date: 11/24/1941     Location: Sverchkovo, Russia Despite the cold, Operation Typhoon is in full gear: the Germans are trudging through snow toward Moscow. On November 23, they capture the towns of Klin and Solnechnogorsk. For the Russians, the situation is becoming catastrophic - … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Battle of Piva Forks Scenario#: 5520     Date: 11/19/1943     Location: Bougainville Island, New Guinea After landing in Empress Augusta Bay during Operation Cherry Blossom, the 3rd Marine Division ventures into the Bougainville Jungle. On November 19, the Marines reach River Piva and a crossroads where the Numa Numa trail meets the East-West one.… Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Battle for Hill 178 Scenario#: 5521     Date: 6/23/1944     Location: Bois du Mont du Roc, France After weeks of tough battles, Major General J. Lawton Collins, commander of VII Corps, is eager to put an end to the battle for Cherbourg and orders three Infantry Divisions to attack the "Festung" (fortress). 9th US Infantry Division … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Gap at Antelat Scenario#: 5522     Date: 1/23/1942     Location: Saùnnu, Libya During the second battle for Cyrenaica, Rommel's AfrikaKorps attacks and soon manages to cut off the 1st British Armoured Division from its rear with the help from Kampfgruppe Marcks' advance toward Saunnu. But on January 23, Kampfgruppe Marcks… Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Holding the Fort at Clervaux Scenario#: 5523     Date: 12/17/1944     Location: Clervaus, Belgium Colonel Fuller, commander of the 110th Infantry Regiment, is waiting for the enemy in Clervaux : defenses have been laid everywhere, even in the old castle. The German Panzers are closing in so Colonel Fuller decides to send a Sherman … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2009
Crucifix Hill Scenario#: 5675     Date: 10/8/1944     Location: Haaren, Germany The US Army nears Aachen. Rather than heading straight for the town, General Hodges opts for an encircling maneuver. The 30th Infantry Division, north of Aachen, marches South, while the 1st Infantry Division skirts the suburbs via the South-East. … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2010
Guam - Landing on Yellow Beach Scenario#: 5735     Date: 7/21/1944     Location: Agat, Guam On July 21, 1944, the Marines set foot on Guam, as part of Operation Forager. The 3rd Marine Division lands on Asan Beach, north of the Orote peninsula, while the 1st Marine Division lands south, opposite the town of Agat. … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2010
Battle of Kalatch Scenario#: 5783     Date: 7/23/1942     Location: Kalatch, Russia On July 23, 1942, General Paulus launches his plan to surround the loop of the Don river in a bid to ensnare the 62nd Soviet Army. The XIV Panzer Corps in the north, will form the left wing of these … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2010
Counter-attack at Holtzwihr Scenario#: 5797     Date: 1/26/1945     Location: Holtzwihr, France During the Battle for the Colmar Pocket, the 3rd U.S. Infantry Division, attached to the 1st French Army for the occasion, bravely inched through the snow-covered plains of Alsace despite the bitter cold. The 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment had just … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2010
Deir el Shein - Act 1 Scenario#: 5866     Date: 7/1/1942     Location: Rouweizat Ridge, Egypt After the battle of Mersa Matrouh, Rommel led his troops back to Alexandria. They arrived at El Alamein June 29, exhausted. Without waiting for all its units to regroup, Rommel launches his Afrika Korps into an attack on the center … Memoir '44 — Open de France 2010