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Title
Apples to Apples
Description
At about 0930 on 4 August, Col. Paul Disney’s 67th Armored Regiment passed through St. Sever Calvados onto a major road leading to Vire. Running parallel to the road was the forest of St. Sever with groves of fruit trees along the fringes. After helping their infantry escorts …
Publisher
Date
1944-08-04
Scenario#
AP037
Scenario Description
At about 0930 on 4 August, Col. Paul Disney’s 67th Armored Regiment passed through St. Sever Calvados onto a major road leading to Vire. Running parallel to the road was the forest of St. Sever with groves of fruit trees along the fringes. After helping their infantry escorts into position, veteran panzermen Joachim Schlomka and Fritz Langanke drove their two Panthers into an apple orchard and waited. The tired panzer crews peered through their vision slits as the American column advanced through the morning fog. Langanke’s first shot missed the lead Sherman, but he dispatched the next two with only one round apiece. The equally tired landsers were soon in a running battle with the GIs of the 41st Armored Infantry
Location
St. Sever-Calvados, France
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the United States First Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II. The intention was to take advantage of the distraction of the Germans by the British and Canadian attacks around Caen in Operation Goodwood, and thereby break through the German defenses that were penning in their forces while the Germans were unbalanced. Once a corridor had been created, the First Army would then be able to advance into Brittany, rolling up the German flanks once free of the constraints of the bocage country. After a slow start, the offensive gathered momentum and German Resistance collapsed as scattered remnants of broken units fought to escape to the Seine. Lacking the resources to cope with the situation, the German response was ineffectual and the entire Normandy front soon collapsed. Operation Cobra, together with concurrent offensives by the British Second Army and the Canadian First Army, was decisive in securing an Allied victory in the Normandy campaign.
Narrative Source
Combatants
American
German
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard
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