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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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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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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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: 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#: Comp4     Date: 08/18/1965     Location: Van Tuong Peninsula, South Vietnam

In the first major clash of the Vietnam War, three battalions of Marines under Colonel Oscar Peatross fought the 1 Viet Cong Regiment under Nguyen Dinh Trong southeast of the new Marine Base at Chu Lai. Hotel Company, 2 Battalion, …

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Scenario#: DJ01     Date: 1943-07-09     Location: Ponyri, Russia

On the north side of the Kursk salient, General Model's Ninth Army pushed south. A key objective was the town of Ponyri, and there the fighting raged. The city was contested so fiercely that veterans named it the Stalingrad of the Kursk salient. Not…

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Scenario#: DJ02     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

On July 10, 1943, after a long and violent fight, Hill 241.1 had finally been taken. Farther to the east, some units from the Aufklarung Abteilung had reached the outskirts of the Oktiabrskii State Farm and reported that the Soviets had set up a…

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Scenario#: DJ03     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

At: 10:15 A.M. elements of the 1St SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH were ordered to advance and take the anti-tank ditches to the east of Hill 252.2. The attack was launched in an attempt to clear out the anti-tank ditches and the surrounding area to…

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Scenario#: DJ04     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

Fierce fighting had been raging all morning, and by 1:00 p.m. the Soviet forces had taken up well-defended positions at the Oktiabrskii State Farm. The LAH needed to capture the farm to secure the left flank of its advance towards Prokhorovka. The…

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Scenario#: DJ05     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

At 6:00 A.M. on the morning of July 12, the leading elements of the 1St SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH were gatheríng for an advance toward Prokhorovka. Meanwhile, remnants of the 26th Guards Airborne Regiment was preparing a last defense line…

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Scenario#: DJ06     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

Just after 1:00 PM. on July 12th, the German 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH was attacked from the east by a Soviet mixed infantry/tank force from the 29th Tank Corps, yet another attempt to halt the Nazi advance to Prokhorovka. …

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Scenario#: HFO01     Date: 1943-05-19     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO02     Date: 1943-05-19     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO03     Date: 1943-05-20     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO04     Date: 1943-05-20     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO05     Date: 1943-05-21     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO06     Date: 1943-05-29     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO07     Date: 1943-05-30     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO08     Date: 1943-05-30     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HFO09     Date: 1943-05-30     Location: Attu Island, Usa

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Scenario#: HiD01     Date: 1939-11-01     Location: Schwarzenbach, Germany

In No-man's Land, French recon patrols identified a German presence near the road crossing at the Winsbach Forest. Elements of the 5th Colonial lnfantry Regiment were ordered to clear the area, in a coordinated assault with the 15th Chasseurs Alpins…

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Scenario#: HiD02     Date: 1940-01-01     Location: Forbach, France

During the period preceding the German offensive both the French and the Germans kept their positions along the border. France had invaded the Saar "country but retreated after the Polish capitulation. War was then an affair of recon patrols, brutal…

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Scenario#: HiD03     Date: 1940-05-10     Location: Ypenburg, Holland

To open the Battle of the Netherlands, the Germans had planned a grand endeavor to capture not just The Hague, and the main Dutch military headquarters there, but the Dutch Royal Family and the Cabinet. Crucial to this effort was …

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Scenario#: HiD04     Date: 1940-05-10     Location: Dordrecht, Holland

As the Blitzkrieg in Holland began, the Germans had to capture the traffic bridge in Dordrecht intact in order to allow the flow of forces from the border to reach Rotterdam and The Hague. A platoon from the 3rd Company, …

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Scenario#: HiD05     Date: 1940-05-10     Location: Martelange, Belgium

In the morning, the 1st Panzer Division crossed Luxembourg, and its advanced guards were ready to enter Belgium as soon as possible. On the border, in Martelange, the Chasseurs Ardennais were ready to fight, and hosted their defenses. Bridges had …

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Scenario#: HiD06     Date: 1940-05-10     Location: Bodange, Belgium

The 1st Panzer Division entered Belgium without difficulty. The Germans hoped to take Neufcháteau on the same day and then rush to the west. but most of the bridges over the Sure River had been destroyed and, at first, only …

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Scenario#: HiD07     Date: 1940-05-11     Location: W Of Wageningen, Holland

On the morning of May 11th German stormtroopers of the SS Standarte der Fuhrer attacked central Holland. The Grebheline was an outer Dutch defensive position extending from the Ijsselmeer, an artificial lake in the north, south to the rehbeberg, …

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Scenario#: HiD08     Date: 1940-05-12     Location: Thisne, Belgium

Hannut, Belgium, saw WWII's first tank battle. On the second day of the battle, the French began to retreat into positions flanking the 4th Panzer Division. Though the Germans wanted to press their advance, they didn't want to risk becoming …

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Scenario#: HiD09     Date: 1940-05-12     Location: Normandy, France

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Scenario#: HiD10     Date: 1940-05-13     Location: Rotterdam, Holland

The Willemsbrug Bridge over the Nieuwe Maas in central Rotterdam was fiercely contested since the Blitzkrieg began on the 10th. The Germans clung to a bridgehead on the north side, but were unable to extend it, with most of their …

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Scenario#: HiD11     Date: 1940-05-14     Location: Monthermé, France

By the evening of May 14th the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Panzer Divisions had established a bridgehead at Sedan. The 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions had established a bridgehead in the area of Dinant and Houx but the spearhead of …

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Scenario#: HiD12     Date: 1940-05-15     Location: La Horgne, France

After successfully crossing the Mouse River. Guderian's Panzer Korps broke away from the Sedan bridgehead. ln front of them remained only scattered units. One of them, the 3rd Brigade of Spahis, North African Cavalry, was ordered to hold the road …

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Scenario#: HiD13     Date: 1940-05-17     Location: Vervins, France

The Germans that crossed the Meuse at Monthermé continued their western push in an effort to take the bridges on the Oise River and Oise-Sambre Canal system. Though the French 9th Army was collapsing. the French HG threw forward several …

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