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Title
The Porechye Bridgehead
Description
A strong combat element of the 6th Panzer Division succeeded in effecting a surprise capture of the two Luga bridges at Porechye, 60 miles southwest of Leningrad, and in forming a bridgehead. The strong armored forces which were to follow remained stuck for days in swampy forest, leaving the …
Publisher
Date
1941-08-05
Scenario#
J093
Scenario Description
A strong combat element of the 6th Panzer Division succeeded in effecting a surprise capture of the two Luga bridges at Porechye, 60 miles southwest of Leningrad, and in forming a bridgehead. The strong armored forces which were to follow remained stuck for days in swampy forest, leaving the bridgehead to fend for itself. Three alerted Proletarian divisions and armored units were dispatched from Leningrad with the mission of cutting off the bridgehead and destroying the German forces. With only a small number of forces to man the long flanks of the bridgehead, it was impossible for the Germans to prevent the mass assaults. Nevertheless, the attacks were expected and the defenses arranged accordingly, with two tank units reinforced with armored infantry held in readiness.
Location
Porechye, Russia
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered as slave labour for the Axis war effort, to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories, and eventually through extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia, remove the Slavic peoples and create Lebensraum for Germany.
Narrative Source
Combatants
Russian
German
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard

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