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Title
Day of Days
Description
The cross channel invasion of France was the crucial “second front” that was needed to defeat Germany. The scope of the invasion was the largest in history and the first day of the Normandy invasion would be the most important. …
Publisher
Date
1944-06-06
Scenario#
1
Scenario Description
The cross channel invasion of France was the crucial “second front” that was needed to defeat Germany. The scope of the invasion was the largest in history and the first day of the Normandy invasion would be the most important. It would be called the Day of Days and the Longest Day. The 101st Airborne was dropped around 1:00am (before the landings) so that it could support the invasion, but the drop did not go well. Units were dropped in the wrong area and were widely scattered. Colonel Robert F. Sink, who commanded the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), had very little information on his troops. The entire communications platoon as well as every single radio operator assigned to the headquarters company were missing. The assignment of the 506th included the capture of Causeways 1 & 2 (the lower exits from Utah beach) and to block enemy forces from those exits. Sink dispatched elements of his 1st Battalion, the only force that he had on hand, to go for Causeway 1.
Location
Utah Beach, France
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Mission Albany was a parachute combat assault at night by the U.S. 10ist Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War II. It was the opening step of Operation Neptune, the assault portion of the Allied invasion of Normandy, Operation Overlord. 6,928 paratroopers made their jumps from 443 C-47 Skytrain troop carrier planes into an intended objective area of roughly 15 square miles (39 km2) located in the southeast corner of the Cotentin Peninsula of France five hours ahead of the D-Day landings. The landings were badly scattered by bad weather and German ground fire over an area twice as large, with some troops dropped as far as 20 miles (32 km) away. The division took most of its objectives on D-Day, but required four days to consolidate its scattered units and complete its mission of securing the left flank and rear of the U.S. VII Corps, reinforced by 2,300 glider infantry troops who landed by sea.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Mission Albany
Combatants
German
American

Geolocation