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Title
Lost Opportunities
Description
Ste. Mere-Eglise was a junction for five roads and was recognized by Germans and Americans alike as the key to defeating the airborne invasion. Shortly after midnight the village’s garrison had massacred in mid-air two sticks of paratroopers who had the misfortune of being dropped right on the village. …
Publisher
Date
1944-06-06
Scenario#
17
Scenario Description
Ste. Mere-Eglise was a junction for five roads and was recognized by Germans and Americans alike as the key to defeating the airborne invasion. Shortly after midnight the village’s garrison had massacred in mid-air two sticks of paratroopers who had the misfortune of being dropped right on the village. Inexplicably, the Germans had returned to their beds where they were captured or shot four hours later by avenging paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion. Having given the village away, the Germans would pay dearly to get it back.
Location
Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France
Battle Narrative
The U.S. airborne landings in Normandy were the first U.S. combat operations during Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. Around 13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions made night parachute drops early on D-Day, June 6, followed by 3,937 glider troops flown in by day. As the opening maneuver of Operation Neptune the two American airborne divisions were delivered to the continent in two parachute and six glider missions.
Combatants
German
American
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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