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Title
Saarlautern Bridgehead
Description
After the capture of the main Saarlautern bridge the previous day, the 95th division managed to form a bridgehead on the other side of the river. The main effort of these troops went into pushing forward towards Fraulautern and to …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1944-12-04
Scenario#
24364
Scenario Description
After the capture of the main Saarlautern bridge the previous day, the 95th division managed to form a bridgehead on the other side of the river. The main effort of these troops went into pushing forward towards Fraulautern and to cross the necessary material to defend the bridgehead. They did not have time totear down the Axis defensive works like barbed wire, minefields and bunkers. The 21st Panzer Division managed to gather a small force of infantry mixed with tanks to counterattack in an attempt to retake their defensive positions on the river's edge and to destroy the bridges. While the allied tank destroyers, machine guns and riflemen that had crossed the bridge managed to fend off several axis tanks, one tank managed to make it to a bridge and was blown up in order to make the bridge unusable for several days.
Location
Saarlautern, Germany
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Undertone, also known as the Saar-Palatinate Offensive, was a large assault by the U.S. Seventh, Third, and French First Armies of the U.S. Sixth and Twelfth Army Groups as part of the Allied invasion of Germany in March 1945 during World War II. A force of three corps was to attack abreast from Saarbrücken, Germany, along a 75-kilometre (47 mi) sector to a point southeast of Hagenau, France. A narrow strip along the Rhine leading to the extreme northeastern corner of Alsace at Lauterbourg was to be cleared by a division of the French First Army under operational control of the Seventh Army. The Seventh Army's main effort was to be made in the center up the Kaiserslautern corridor.
Narrative Source
Combatants
American
German
Additional Information
Game Type: Standard
Board Type: Winter
Website Access: Available

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