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Title
Everybody's Dying
Description
Shanley used his radio contact with Colonel Lindquist at Chef du Pont to plead for supplies, and by nightfall was promised that a convoy would make an attempt. But first, the Germans would have to be cleared from the western …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1944-06-09
Scenario#
CD01
Scenario Description
Shanley used his radio contact with Colonel Lindquist at Chef du Pont to plead for supplies, and by nightfall was promised that a convoy would make an attempt. But first, the Germans would have to be cleared from the western end of the cause way. Sickened by the sight of wounded men dying for lack of medical supplies. Lieutenant Woodrow Millsaps volunteered for the breakout attempt. Choosing men from his own 1st Battalion, among them Second Lieutenant Lloyd Polette, he set off at midnight. The artillery concentration plarmed to precede Millsaps’ assault on le Port-Filiolet yielded only a few rounds before being transferred to an alternative target. Millsaps and Polette tried for some while to get the men moving against the Germans’ buildings and rifle pits. Then, in an instant, the mood changed, and the entire group charged. Shooting and grenading all in their path, their fury continued long after the last Germans were dealt with, as they slaughtered horses, cows, and sheep. When sanity returned, a badly wounded man posted to guard the rear complained that he could not; he was dying. Millsaps responded, I know you’re dying... God damn it, everybody’s dying. Go cover the road! ’ Millsaps made it to Chef du Pont, where he personally pressed for the convoy to be sent. But by that time, Polette and the rest had already given up their fragile hold on le Port-Filiolet. With reluctance, Shanley had to turn doWn the offer of aid.
Location
Le Port-feliolet, 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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