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Pegasus BridgeScenario#: 2 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Bénouville, FranceThe late hours of June 5, 1944... Led by Major John Howard, the men of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry* step aboard six Horsa gliders on a secret airfield in Dorset. Their mission: to launch the first airborne assault of … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Sainte-Mère-EgliseScenario#: 3 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sainte-Mère-Eglise, FranceEstablishment of a defensive base at Ste. Mère-Église was one of the key objectives of the US 82nd Airborne Division. In contrast with other regiments, the 505th Parachute Infantry, landing northwest of Ste. Mère-Église, had one of the most accurate… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Sword BeachScenario#: 4 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sword Beach, FranceThe 8th Brigade Group of the 3rd British Division, supported by Commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade and the amphibious Sherman tanks of the 13th and 18th Hussars, formed the first wave of Allied forces to land on "Sword" … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Mont MouchetScenario#: 5 Date: 6/10/1944 Location: Mont Mouchet, FranceOn June 10th, three tactical groups from the Wehrmacht, about 2,000 men with armored support, converged on Mont Mouchet. Simultaneously moving in from the west (Saint Flour), north (Langeac and Pinols) and east (Le Puy-en-Velay et Saugues) they were… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Pointe-du-HocScenario#: 7 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Pointe-du-Hoc, FrancePlanners felt that the German batteries on Pointe-du-Hoc would be one of the most daunting threats to Allied forces landing on Omaha in the morning of D-Day. Set atop 100 foot cliffs west of the beach, the guns' range were … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Operation GoodwoodScenario#: 9 Date: 7/18/1944 Location: Cagny, FranceAround 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 |
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Omaha Beach First Assault WaveScenario#: 11 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Omaha Beach, France"Never had there been a dawn like this." - Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day The US assault waves on Omaha Beach were led by the 116th Regimental Combat Team, destined for Dog sector on the left; and the 16th Regimental … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Omaha Beach OverlordScenario#: 13 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Omaha Beach, FranceThe US assault waves on Omaha Beach were led by the 116th Regimental Combat Team, destined for Dog sector on the left; and the 16th Regimental Combat Team hitting Easy and Fox sectors. The first wave also included two battalions … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Operation CobraScenario#: 15 Date: 7/25/1944 Location: Marigny, FranceOperation "Cobra" was predicated on the saturation bombing of German lines over a narrow front. After the bombing, an attack would be made by three infantry divisions, with two armored and one infantry divisions held in reserve of this breakout … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Operation Luttich Counter-attack on MortainScenario#: 16 Date: 8/7/1944 Location: Mortain, France"We must strike like lightning!" - Adolf Hitler to Field Marshall Von Kluge Operation Luttich' began shortly before midnight on the evening of August 3rd. Under direct orders from Hitler, four armored divisions launched a counterattack westward… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Villers-BocageScenario#: 17 Date: 6/12/1944 Location: Villers-Bocage, FranceOn June 12th, the Second British Army was still searching for a soft spot in the German defenses around Caen. An attempt was made to exploit a gap between the 352nd German Division, driven back from 'Omaha' by the American … Memoir '44 — Battle Maps Series 1 - Tigers in the Snow |
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Montélimar Champaign for Southern FranceScenario#: 18 Date: 8/25/1944 Location: Montélimar, FranceThe Montelimar battle square, bounded on three sides by rivers, covered ground that alternated between flat open farmland and rugged hills and woods. Route N-7, the main north-south artery, runs along the Rhone River and was vital to the German … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Vassieux, VercorsScenario#: 19 Date: 7/21/1944 Location: Vassieux, FranceHotbed of the French Resistance, the "Maquis" of Vercors became one of the largest of its kind in the early months of 1944, with countless young French recruits joining up. Resistance camps were established around many villages such as Vassieux, … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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St Vith, ArdennesScenario#: 20 Date: 12/20/1944 Location: St Vith, BelgiumAs early as August 1944, Adolf Hitler began formulating plans for what would become the Ardennes offensive. While too ambitious for the available resources and terrain, the plan was deemed by the German High Command as having more chances of … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Twin VillagesScenario#: 21 Date: 12/17/1944 Location: Krinkekt, BelgiumThe 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 |
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Liberation of ParisScenario#: 22 Date: 8/24/1944 Location: Paris, FranceConscious of the highly symbolic and political importance of Paris, Allied forces initially planned to surround the city and wait for its capitulation rather than risk taking it, with the inherent costs of street-by-street fighting and obvious risks… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Toulon Champaign for Southern FranceScenario#: 23 Date: 8/20/1944 Location: Toulon, FrancePlans for the landings and campaign in southern France called for the French II Corps to take the port cities of Toulon and Marseille. Seeking to exploit German weakness in the area, General de Lattre de Tassigny pushed up the … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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ArracourtScenario#: 24 Date: 9/19/1944 Location: Arracourt, FrancePart of the problem for the German forces involved in the Lorraine counter-offensive was the "Eastern" outlook of many of the units. They were unfamiliar with the US Army and its very different tactics. On the Eastern front, tank formations … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Arnhem BridgeScenario#: 25 Date: 9/17/1944 Location: Arnhem, HollandThe largest Airborne drop ever designed, Operation Market Garden was Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's plan to end the war on the Western Front early. If successful, it would threaten the flanks of German defenses along the Siegfried line and… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Operation SpringScenario#: 26 Date: 7/25/1944 Location: Tilly-la-Campagne, FranceOperation 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 |
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Attack on Hill 192Scenario#: 27 Date: 7/11/1944 Location: La Croix-Rouge, FranceThe 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 |
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StrasbourgScenario#: 28 Date: 1/11/1945 Location: Strasbourg, FranceOn 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 |
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Saverne Gap, VosgesScenario#: 29 Date: 11/19/1944 Location: Saverne, FranceThe Saverne Gap, cutting through the Vosges mountains, was the key to Strasbourg, capital city of Alsace. On November 21st, the US Seventh Army XV Corps, under the command of General Wade Hampton Halslip, arrived to the front lines at … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44 |
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Sword Beach OverlordScenario#: 34 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sword Beach, FranceThe 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 |
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Juno BeachScenario#: 38 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Juno Beach, FranceThe 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 |
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Gold BeachScenario#: 41 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Gold Beach, FranceThe 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 |
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Utah BeachScenario#: 42 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Utah Beach, FranceThe 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 |
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CarentanScenario#: 1222 Date: 6/13/1944 Location: Carentan, FranceThe 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 |
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Carentan CausewayScenario#: 1225 Date: 6/11/1944 Location: Carentan, FranceRommel 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 |
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ValkenswaardScenario#: 1230 Date: 9/17/1944 Location: Valkenswaard, HollandAt 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 |
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Relief of PeiperScenario#: 1242 Date: 12/21/1944 Location: Trois Ponts, BelgiumOrdered 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 |
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Bastogne Corridor WestScenario#: 1252 Date: 12/30/1944 Location: Bastogne, BelgiumOn 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 |
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Bastogne Corridor EastScenario#: 1253 Date: 12/30/1944 Location: Bastogne, BelgiumOn 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 |
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Bastogne OverlordScenario#: 1254 Date: 12/30/1944 Location: Bastogne, BelgiumOn 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 |
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Across the MeuseScenario#: 1287 Date: 5/13/1940 Location: Dinant, BelgiumIn 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 |
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Gallabat & MetemmaScenario#: 1289 Date: 11/6/1940 Location: Metemma, EthiopiaGallabat-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 |
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Counter-Attack at ArrasScenario#: 1290 Date: 5/21/1940 Location: Agny, FranceThanks 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 |
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Groesbeek HeightsScenario#: 1296 Date: 9/18/1944 Location: Groesbeek Heights, HollandBy September 17th, during Operation Market Garden, the 82nd Airborne had secured most of its objectives, except for the Nijmegen bridges. Late that day, reports were received at General Gavin's headquarters that German troops, namely battlegroups,… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan |
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North of OosterbeekScenario#: 1297 Date: 9/19/1944 Location: Oosterbeek, HollandThe 4th British Parachute Brigade landed as part of the second lift the evening of the 18th. At dawn on the 19th they moved out to take the high ground north of Arnhem. From this position they would be able … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan |
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Koevering Corridor RaidScenario#: 1298 Date: 9/24/1944 Location: Koevering, HollandOn September 24, 1944, German Fallschirmjaegers, led by Major Hans Jungwirth who knew the ground well, approached the small hamlet of Koevering almost undetected. At about 1900 hours the destruction began as the German units poured heavy fire into… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan |
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Reinforce ArnhemScenario#: 1299 Date: 9/19/1944 Location: Ooosterbeek, HollandOn September 19th, with Major Urquhart missing, Brigadier Hicks assumed command and was determined to adhere to his mission of reinforcing the 2nd Paratroopers holding Arnhem Bridge. Hicks' force of the 1st, 3rd,11th Paratroopers and South… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan |
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Nijmegen BridgesScenario#: 1302 Date: 9/20/1944 Location: Nijmegen, HollandIt was hoped that the 82nd Airborne Paratroopers would be able to take the strongly held Nijmegen bridges during the early phases of Operation Market Garden, but other priorities and drops that put most of the Paras miles from their … Memoir '44 — Terrain Pack |
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ElstScenario#: 1303 Date: 9/21/1944 Location: Elst, HollandThe British XXX Corps took the Nijmegen bridge then waited for nineteen hours to move toward Arnhem. This delay enabled the Germans to transform what had been a weak defensive line into a strong blocking force around the town of … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan |
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Longvilly TrapScenario#: 1310 Date: 12/19/1944 Location: Longvilly, BelgiumSix 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 |
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Bug RiverScenario#: 1311 Date: 6/22/1941 Location: Matykaky, BelarusOn June 22, 1941, the 18th Panzer Division made an unusual assault across the Bug River. The first wave of infantry in Sturmboot assault craft was followed by anti-tank and artillery on decked inflatable rafts. Even more remarkable, were the … Memoir '44 — Eastern Front |
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LipovecScenario#: 1312 Date: 7/22/1941 Location: Lipovec, UkraineOperating 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 |
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Dug in at Sidi OmarScenario#: 1324 Date: 11/25/1941 Location: Sidi Omar, LibyaHaving extricated himself from a very precarious position at Sidi Rezegh airfield, Rommel looked for ways to press his advantage. He sent his Afrikakorps toward Sidi Omar, in the hope of re-establishing himself on the border and turning his victory … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater |
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Gates of MoscowScenario#: 1325 Date: 10/18/1941 Location: Moscow, RussiaIn October, the German High Command launched the final offensive of 1941 - Operation Typhoon. The initial German success on the Eastern Front had put them deep into the Soviet Union on all fronts, but the advance slowed before they … Memoir '44 — Eastern Front |
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TunisiaScenario#: 1326 Date: 12/1/1942 Location: Tebourba, TunisiaOn 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 |
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Yellow BeachScenario#: 1327 Date: 8/19/1942 Location: Dieppe, FranceThe 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 |