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Title
South Rampart - Fire!
Description
By mid morning, Timmes had over a hundred men digging in around the buildings and gardens of the small hamlet of les Heutes. Timmes’ own CP was established under the trees of a bocage-lined orchard. One detail requisitioned the farmer’s …
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Source
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Date
1944-06-06
Scenario#
N12
Scenario Description
By mid morning, Timmes had over a hundred men digging in around the buildings and gardens of the small hamlet of les Heutes. Timmes’ own CP was established under the trees of a bocage-lined orchard. One detail requisitioned the farmer’s donkey to haul supplies from gliders in the flooded marsh, while another group of paratroopers helped the farm hands to deliver a new born calf - which was duly named ‘6th June’. As the afternoon progressed, the volume of long range fire from the Gray Castle steadily rose, and shadowy figures were spotted infiltrating closer along the hedgerows. At around 18:00, the storm burst over Timmes’ orchard. The Germans had spent the afternoon securing their hold on Cauquigny and the western shore of the Merderet. Next on the list of priorities was the elimination of the American force isolated at les Heutes. Slipping behind hedgerows and bushes, the Germans closed with their American adversaries, frequently inflicting damage oiJy to with draw still unseen. But the paratroopers were not to be dislodged from their stronghold. The longest day ended with Timmes’ force standing firm.
Location
Les Heutes, 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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