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Title
Noville
Description
The combat experienced 4th Infantry Division stayed mostly intact in the face of the German onslaught that would later become known as the Battle of the Bulge. They stalled long enough for the 1st Battalion of the 101st as well …
Publisher
Date
1944-12-19
Scenario#
13
Scenario Description
The combat experienced 4th Infantry Division stayed mostly intact in the face of the German onslaught that would later become known as the Battle of the Bulge. They stalled long enough for the 1st Battalion of the 101st as well as tank destroyers from 705th TD Battalion and a small task force under Major Desobry to arrive at Noville before the Germans reached it. As a light fog fell over the field the advancing German tanks passed over the paratroopers who were dug in outside the town. The troopers lay low in shallow foxholes and slit trenches until the monsters passed, but the German infantry was following behind them. The German tanks made it into Noville, but the infantry was stopped cold by the paratroopers. There in the center of town, the Germans began to lose tanks to the Shermans and TD’s patrolling the streets. Without their screen of infantry, they were vulnerable. They and the infantry pulled back, but this would be the first of many assaults and the Americans would eventually have to abandon Noville.
Location
Noville, Belgium
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Siege of Bastogne was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgium. Because all seven main roads in the densely wooded Ardennes highlands converged on Bastogne, just a few miles away from the border with neighboring Luxembourg, control of its crossroads was vital to the German attack. The siege was from 20 to 27 December, until the besieged American forces were relieved by elements of General George Patton's Third Army.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
American

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