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Title
Schloss Hemingstein
Description
Always close enough to the battle to maintain his reputation as an action reporter, “Papa” Ernest Hemingway had become close friends with the commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, Colonel Charles Lanham. Lanham wanted to make sure Hemingway had something to write about without getting killed trying to find …
Publisher
Date
1944-09-14
Scenario#
J121
Scenario Description
Always close enough to the battle to maintain his reputation as an action reporter, “Papa” Ernest Hemingway had become close friends with the commander of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, Colonel Charles Lanham. Lanham wanted to make sure Hemingway had something to write about without getting killed trying to find it. After personally leading a stalled attack against “Black Man” Ridge, Lanham and the 22nd would find the sharp end among the firs near Brandscheid, while his writer-friend sipped captured German cognac from a hilltop observation post.
Location
Brandscheid, Germany
Battle Narrative
The Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine, also known as the Siegfried Line campaign, was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II. This phase spans from the end of the Battle of Normandy, or Operation Overlord, (25 August 1944) incorporating the German winter counter-offensive through the Ardennes (commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge) and Operation Nordwind (in Alsace and Lorraine) up to the Allies preparing to cross the Rhine in the early months of 1945. This roughly corresponds with the official United States military European Theater of Operations Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace campaigns.
Combatants
American
German
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard

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