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Title
All Along the Merderet
Description
The Longest Day was living up to its name as various small units of the 82nd Airborne coalesced along the Merderet River intent of their various objectives or simply engaging German forces wherever found. One critical point in the battle for the Contentin peninsula had been identified early on …
Publisher
Date
1944-06-06
Scenario#
WO10
Scenario Description
The Longest Day was living up to its name as various small units of the 82nd Airborne coalesced along the Merderet River intent of their various objectives or simply engaging German forces wherever found. One critical point in the battle for the Contentin peninsula had been identified early on both sides. Cauquigny – a very small hamlet consisting of a church and a few houses – overlooked the western end of a causeway over the flooded Merderet River. The farm of M. Leroux (known locally as Le Manoir) guarded the bridge at the other end. After a short fight, the American paratroopers capture Le Manoir and the eastern said of the causeway, but were unable to hold the western edge. Instead, the Americans on that side under command of Colonel Timmes moved north towards the nearby village of Amfreville. Judging themselves too weak to attack, they instead dug in amongst a thick copse of blooming apple trees and waited optimistically for reinforcements.
Location
Cauquigny, France
Battle Narrative
The U.S. airborne landings in Normandy were the first U.S. combat operations during Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. Around 13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions made night parachute drops early on D-Day, June 6, followed by 3,937 glider troops flown in by day. As the opening maneuver of Operation Neptune the two American airborne divisions were delivered to the continent in two parachute and six glider missions.
Combatants
German
American
Additional Information
Scenario Type = Standard

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