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Title
Charge The Causeway
Description
3rd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment had until recently been 2nd Battalion, 401 Glider Infantry. Now attached to the 325th, some resentment was felt by the orphaned unit. Resentment worsened on the approach march to La Fiere, as their commanding …
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Date
1944-06-09
Scenario#
N07
Scenario Description
3rd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment had until recently been 2nd Battalion, 401 Glider Infantry. Now attached to the 325th, some resentment was felt by the orphaned unit. Resentment worsened on the approach march to La Fiere, as their commanding officer was relieved of command and replaced by the colonel of the 325th. The battalion had been briefed to expect a 500 yard advance across the exposed causeway, and had been promised a barrage of smoke. Captain Rae’s 507th Regiment guardians of the La Fiere bridge were, for the time at least, a spent force. Ridgway needed a crossing, and the glider men were committed to a frontal assault across the Merderet. Although the promised smoke was lacking, a preparatory barrage was patched together with the unstinting cooperation of 90th Division artillery. The headlong charge of Sauls and his handful of George Company followers was the first of many acts of individual heroism that were to reward 3/325th with a small and uncertain yet significant bridgehead across the Merderet.
Location
La Fiere Manoir, France
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Mission Boston was a parachute combat assault at night by Major General Matthew Ridgway's U.S. 82nd "All American" Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War II. Boston was a component element of Operation Neptune, the assault portion of the Allied invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord. 6,420 paratroopers jumped from nearly 370 C-47 Skytrain troop carrier aircraft into an intended objective area of roughly 10 square miles (26 km2) located on either side of the Merderet river on the Cotentin Peninsula of France, five hours ahead of the D-Day landings. The drops were scattered by bad weather and German anti-aircraft fire over an area three to four times as large as that planned. Two inexperienced units of the 82nd, the 507th and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments (PIR), were given the mission of blocking approaches west of the Merderet River, but most of their paratroops missed their drop zones entirely. The veteran 505th PIR jumped accurately and captured its objective, the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, which proved essential to the success of the division.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Mission Boston
Combatants
German
American
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