Not Bad For A Lone Croc

The 29th Infantry Division cuold feel that the campaign for Brest was reaching a climax but there was still a significant amount of frustration at divisional headquarters with the slow progress and general attrition of trained fighting men from comabt lossed. Due to casualties and replacements, the “29, Let's …

1944-09-14

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The 29th Infantry Division cuold feel that the campaign for Brest was reaching a climax but there was still a significant amount of frustration at divisional headquarters with the slow progress and general attrition of trained fighting men from comabt lossed. Due to casualties and replacements, the “29, Let's Go!” Division was not the same one that had landed at Omaha Beach. While the Germans in the Brest Pocket were benig squeezed, General Gerhardt, the Division Commander, knew that there were still fanatical Fallschirmjager in front of him occupying excellent defensive terrain. Once such place was Fort Montbarey, which had stymied the 2/115 for several days. The combination of the fort, artillery, and local counterattacks had caused the Americans significant losses. Something different needed to be tried if the 29th was going to push on to Brest.

Fort Montbarey, France

The Battle for Brest> was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces. It was estimated that the 37 Allied divisions to be on the continent by September 1944 would need 26,000 tons of supplies each day. The main port the Allied forces hoped to seize and put into their service was Brest, in northwestern France.

American / British

German

Scenario Type = Standard