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Title
 Yanks Are Coming
Description
General Pershing continues to struggle with his Allies who want to take and absorb his American units into their own armies. One such division is the 33rd from Illinois. Since June it has trained with British lll Corps at the …
Publisher
Date
1918-08-09
Scenario#
30
Scenario Description
General Pershing continues to struggle with his Allies who want to take and absorb his American units into their own armies. One such division is the 33rd from Illinois. Since June it has trained with British lll Corps at the Somme, as the only US division under British command. Except for a single day's attack at Hamel with the Australians, the 33rd idles and chafes at the bit. Then on 9 August during the larger Allied Somme offensive, the battered British 174th and 175th Brigades are pushed back in the Chipilly sector. German artillery on high ground is then left free to pound advancing Australian units. The urgent Corps call goes out to the Yanks in the rear to pick up the slack and protect the exposed flank, or the wider offensive may fail. After long marches, the tired US 131st Regiment goes in right away; they aim to drive the German defenders out of their fonnidable positions in the woods and on the ridge. Late in the day, elements of the German 243rd Division and crack 27th Division stubbornly yield to two assaults by the Americans and the regrouped British.
Location
Chipilly Ridge, France
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Amiens, also known as the Third Battle of Picardy, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive which began on 8 August 1918, later known as the Hundred Days Offensive, that ultimately led to the end of the First World War. Allied forces advanced over 11 kilometres (7 mi) on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with Gen Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army (with 9 of its 19 divisions supplied by the fast moving Australian Corps of Lt Gen John Monash and Canadian Corps of Lt Gen Arthur Currie) playing the decisive role. The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces. This led Erich Ludendorff to later describe the first day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army". Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
British

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