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Title
Festung St. Edouard
Description
The American plan of attack against Stoumont for the morning of December 21st was ambitious. The depleted 1/119th Infantry was to push east and seize the sanatorium. Upon its capture, the even weaker 3/119th was to attack southward in conjunction with Task Force Jordan and take Roua. …
Publisher
Date
1944-12-21
Scenario#
KGP02
Scenario Description
The American plan of attack against Stoumont for the morning of December 21st was ambitious. The depleted 1/119th Infantry was to push east and seize the sanatorium. Upon its capture, the even weaker 3/119th was to attack southward in conjunction with Task Force Jordan and take Roua. In the meantime, the fresh 2/119th was to move east along the high wooded ridge north of the two villages, then turn south and cut the Stoumont-La Gleize road, in effect completing an encirclement of the Stoumont-Roua area north of the Ambleve. An early-morning German attack on the 1/119th upset the U.S. timetable, however, forcing the battalion’s assault, and consequently that of the 3/119th and TF Jordan, to be postponed. Following a bombardment of the sanatorium defenses, the 1/119th finally advanced at 1245 hours.
Location
Stoumont, Belgium
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper, a German Waffen-SS unit led by Joachim Peiper and part of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, at Baugnez crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. Eighty-four American prisoners of war were massacred by their German captors. The prisoners were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns; those still alive were killed by close-range shots to the head.
Narrative Source
Combatants
American
German
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard

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