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Title
Easy Over
Description
Third battalion of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment was lined up to assault the causeway in sequence of companies: George, Easy, Fox. As 1st Platoon of Easy arrived at La Fiere, the bulk of George Company was still strung out …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1944-06-09
Scenario#
CD03
Scenario Description
Third battalion of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment was lined up to assault the causeway in sequence of companies: George, Easy, Fox. As 1st Platoon of Easy arrived at La Fiere, the bulk of George Company was still strung out across the causeway. Stragglers, wounded, and dead plus a trickle of German prisoners formed a physical barrier to progress, as German shells continued to pound the crossing. Platoon Sergeant Henry Howell h^ no orders to move through the lead company, until the Battalion S3 urged him to ‘Get this platoon moving or we’ll all die here.’ Easy Company’s crossing was as bloody and as hesitant as George’s. Following Howell’s lead, 2nd Platoon reached the far shore with a mere dozen men. OfEasy Company’s 148 men, over half were left on the causeway; and more were to fall on the west bank. Watching from La Fiere, General Gavin could only see confusion and failure, and prepared to send in Rae’s 507th Regiment paratroopers. But unknown to him, across the causeway, acts of individual heroism at squad level were turning a bridgehead into a viablc'perimeter. The privates and sergeants at the sharp end began to sense what their com mand could hot: the Germans were beginning to waver.
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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