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Title
Heroes of Lanzerath
Description
On the morning of 16 December, 3rd FJ Division began an attack through the Losheim Gap towards Lanzerath to secure the road north to Bullingen. This road w'ould provide the ISS Pz Division access to their assigned rollbahn in the Wacht am Rhein offensive. It was here that the men …
Publisher
Date
1944-12-16
Scenario#
25
Scenario Description
On the morning of 16 December, 3rd FJ Division began an attack through the Losheim Gap towards Lanzerath to secure the road north to Bullingen. This road w'ould provide the ISS Pz Division access to their assigned rollbahn in the Wacht am Rhein offensive. It was here that the men of an elite Intelligence & Recon (I&R) Platoon repulsed three attacks from a superior force over the course of the day. According to the Germans, it threw their offensive timetable off by 20 hours. They became the most decorated platoon for a single action in WWII!
Location
Lanzerath, Belgium
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Lanzerath Ridge was fought on December 16, 1944, the first day of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, near the village of Lanzerath, Belgium, along the key route for the German advance on the northern shoulder of the operation. The American force consisted of two squads totalling 18 men belonging to a reconnaissance platoon and four forward artillery observers, against a German battalion of about 500 paratroopers. During a day-long confrontation, the American defenders inflicted dozens of casualties on the Germans and delayed by almost 20 hours the advance of the entire 1st SS Panzer Division, the spearhead of the German 6th Panzer Army.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Operation Cobra
Combatants
American
German

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