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Title
Hold the Line
Description
July 7 saw a brief battle in which German forces were forcibly evicted from their hilltop defenses near the Vire River. The small American force that won the day, elements of the 743d Tank Battalion, including an immobilized M4 Sherman, was then tasked to hold the hills until reinforcements could arrive to relieve them. Sergeant White ordered his infantry to dig in atop the dominant hill as Sgt. Buehler prepped his shaken tank crew. It is now just before dawn, July 8, and the dim morning glow is punctuated by a flare igniting over Hill I04. The expected German counterattack has arrived; the US reinforcements have not.
Source
Publisher
Date
1944-07-08
Scenario#
11
Scenario Description
July 7 saw a brief battle in which German forces were forcibly evicted from their hilltop defenses near the Vire River. The small American force that won the day, elements of the 743d Tank Battalion, including an immobilized M4 Sherman, was then tasked to hold the hills until reinforcements could arrive to relieve them. Sergeant White ordered his infantry to dig in atop the dominant hill as Sgt. Buehler prepped his shaken tank crew. It is now just before dawn, July 8, and the dim morning glow is punctuated by a flare igniting over Hill I04. The expected German counterattack has arrived; the US reinforcements have not.
Location
St. Jean de Daye, France
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows, which took place between July 7–19, 1944, just before Operation Cobra. Saint-Lô had fallen to Germany in 1940, and, after the Invasion of Normandy, the Americans targeted the city, as it served as a strategic crossroads. American bombardments caused heavy damage and a high number of casualties, which resulted in the martyr city being called "The Capital of Ruins", popularized in a report by Samuel Beckett.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Americans

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