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Title
The Seige
Description
By D+2, Timmes had the enormous psychological boost of a telephone line across the marsh to the far shore. He had also the shaken glidermen who had fallen back to the orchard after the confusion of the night. As dawn …
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Source
Publisher
Date
1944-06-08
Scenario#
N15
Scenario Description
By D+2, Timmes had the enormous psychological boost of a telephone line across the marsh to the far shore. He had also the shaken glidermen who had fallen back to the orchard after the confusion of the night. As dawn broke, the men of the 1/325 were in the process of regrouping, and had yet to prepare entrenchments. Timmes had no relief in sight. The secret ford was a precarious lifeline, swept by fire and barely usable in daylight. As casualties continued to mount in the orchard, scores of wounded threatened to overwhelm the wholly inadequate medical facilities. And the German determination to retake the crossing was undiminished. Once again, the unrelenting bombardment gave way to multiple furious German assaults on the orchard. This time, the attacks were from every direction. Timmes and his men clung on, while wounded and civilians took what little shelter the surviving buildings offered. By day’s end, the outpost held. But within the perimeter, a quarter of the force were dead or incapacitated, and a further quarter suffering minor wounds. The struggle continued.
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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