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Scenario#: 50     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: Omaha Beach, France

After knocking out a key German Widerstandsnest on the east end of Omaha Beach, US forces from L company, 16th infantry led by Lt. Jimmie Monteith, gained a toe-hold on the high ground. As Monteith and his men advanced through …

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Scenario#: 49     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

Upon landing under heavy fire at the west end of Omaha Beach at 0630 hours, a boat team of Rangers of C Company, 2nd Battalion scaled cliffs to become the first US soldiers on the high ground. Assigned a mission …

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Scenario#: 48     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: Omaha Beach, France

Pinned on the beach under relentless fire from German Widerstandsnest (Resistance points) hidden in the overlooking bluffs, US soldiers hunkered down behind the meager protection of the beach's loose stone shingle. But in one sector the Germans were…

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Scenario#: 46     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: Benouville, France

At 0016 hours, three Airspeed Horsa gliders, flown with outstanding skill by pilots of the Glider Pilot Regiment, landed troops from the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light lnfantry within 50 yards of the Caen Canal Bridge at Bénouville…

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Scenario#: 33     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: St. Mere Eglise, France

In the early hours of June 6, the paratroopers of the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions leapt into the night over Normandy to clear the path for the invading Allied forces who were at that time steaming across the English …

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Scenario#: 26     Date: 6-Jun-44     Location: Neuville-Au-Plain, France

lt's D-Day, and the 82nd Airborne Division is struggling to consolidate its defenses at St. Mere Eglise. Expecting a counterattack from the north, 3/505 Commander Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort orders D Company's 3rd Platoon, led by 1st Lt. Turner…

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Scenario#: 73     Date: 25-May-44     Location: Drvar, Bosnia

At the town cemetery outside Drvar, Western Bosnia, with Partisans of the Lika Division in a ferocious showdown with elements of the 500th SS Fallschirmjäger Battalion after a spectacular but failed attempt to seize Tito in his country HQ.

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Scenario#: 9     Date: April 1944     Location: Kamenets, Ukraine

Hube's Pocket, named for German Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube, was created when forces of the Soviet 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts attempted to cut off and encircle the German 1st Panzer Army north of the Dniester River. As the most powerful …

Panzer (GMT)Operations on the Eastern Front 1943-45
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Scenario#: 62     Date: Apr-44     Location: Bessarabia, Romania

Set in a German rear area as Soviet forces press German forces back into the Carpathian Mountains.

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Scenario#: 7     Date: Apr-44     Location: Bessarabia, Romania

By mid April of 1944, the southern front in Russia had seen Soviet troops on the offensive for four consecutive months. Zhukov's plan to attack beyond the Dneister River as far as Chernovtsy was approved by Stavka, with Russian troops …

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Scenario#: 35     Date: 1944-03-14     Location: Bougainville, New Guinea

Japanese soldiers of the 6th Division have prepared for the last several weeks for an offensive against the American forces at Bougainville. Divided into three assault units, they advanced against the American positions. Fierce fighting defined these…

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Scenario#: 114     Date: 4-Mar-44     Location: Walawbum, Burma

In its first major operation, the US GALAHAD force of deep penetration "marauders" had flanked the resourceful General Sinichi Tanaka's 18th Division defending against Joe Stilwell’s Chinese push into the Hukawng Valley of northern Burma. Unbeknownst…

Combat CommanderC3I Magazine #25
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Scenario#: 6     Date: Early 1944     Location: Kharkov, Ukraine

The Soviet 8th Guards Mechanized Corps was formed in late 1943 as part of the 1st Tank Army, which it remained part of until the end of the war. It was involved in battle to recapture Kharkov and then the …

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Scenario#: 20     Date: 8 January 1944     Location: Lozovatka, Ukraine

General Koniev's 2nd Ukrainian Front launched a major offen sive in December of 1943. with the aim to break through the German lines in the Kirovograd area. Multiple attacks were launched and Soviet troops were pouring through. The Panzergrenadier…

Fighting FormationsGrossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
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Scenario#: 19     Date: 7 January 1944     Location: Muchartovka, Ukraine

The Soviets 2nd Ukrainian Front launched a major offensive in late December of 1943 in southern Russia. The attacks began in earnest on 5 January 1944 with the goal of breaking through the German lines in the Kirovograd area. These …

Fighting FormationsGrossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
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Scenario#: 17     Date: 24-Dec-43     Location: Ortona, Italy

On December 21l, house to house fighting began in earnest in the Adriatic seaport of Ortona. It was during the next seven days that the Canadian 1st Infantry Division literally rewrote the book on close-quarters city fighting techniques. More than …

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Scenario#: 72     Date: 23-Dec-43     Location: Island of Korcula, Croatia

On the island of Korčula on the Croatian Adriatic coast, with Partisans of the Dalmatian Brigade attempting to buy enough time for their comrades to evacuate from surrounding German units of the 118th Jäger Division.

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Scenario#: 15     Date: Late 1943     Location: Poltava, Ukraine

After the German defeat at Kursk, the focus shifted south to the Dnepr River. There, the Germans constructed a fortified line dubbed the "Eastern Rampart". Boasting the Dnepr would flow backwards before the Soviets could overcome this position, the…

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #1 The Shape Of Battle On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: 7     Date: Late 1943     Location: Kiev, Ukraine

The Soviet 10th Tank Corps was part of the 1st Tank Army at Kursk where it clashed with the German forces to close the salient. It then took part in the offensive to relieve Kharkov and the advance to the …

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Scenario#: 3     Date: Late 1943     Location: Dniepr, Ukraine

This is a race to capture the only three crossings over a key water passage. Will the stem the Soviet advance or will they push the aside and rch on to relieve Kharkov?

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Scenario#: 1     Date: Late 1943     Location: Dnieper, Ukraine

This is race a to capture the only three crossings over a key water passage. Will the Germans stem the Soviet advance or will they push the Germans aside and march on to relieve Kharkov?

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Scenario#: 18     Date: 4 November 1943     Location: Krasny Orlik, near Kharkov, Ukraine

In late 1943 the Grossdeutschland Division was heavily engaged in multiple defensive battles east of Krivoi-Rog. It was here the division earned the nickname "The Fire Brigade." One such encounter occurred when the German 9th Panzer Division was…

Fighting FormationsGrossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
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Scenario#: 5     Date: Late 1943     Location: Kiev, Ukraine

At the conclusion of Operation Zitadelle (Kursk). Germany's Army Group South was tasked with holding back the Soviet offensive operations that followed in the Ukrainian sector. The four panzer divisions of the German 6th Army, reformed in March 1943…

Panzer (GMT)Operations on the Eastern Front 1943-45
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Scenario#: E     Date: 2-Nov-43     Location: Butaritari, Gilbert Islands

The Gilbert Islands became one of the first stepping stones in the large scale movement by the US to take back Japanese-held territory. A Japanese seaplane base guarded by a citadel of defenses was the key target on Butaritari, a …

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Scenario#: D     Date: 1-Nov-43     Location: Empress August Bay, Bougainville

On this date the US 3rd Marine Division landed at Cape Torokina. Naval forces assisting the Marines included 4 cruisers and 8 destroyers. Empress Augusta Bay had been chosen because it was within range of allied land—based fighter bases and …

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Scenario#: M12     Date: 17-Oct-43     Location: Song River, New Guinea

As the Allies progressed up the New Guinea coast. General Adachi’s XVIII Army desperately counterattacked. To support a 20th Division thrust into the Allied perimeter around Finschhafen, Adachi dispatched barges loaded with remnants of 1st Lt.…

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Scenario#: 113     Date: 9-Oct-43     Location: Jivevenang, New Guinea

In order to secure Finschhafen as a forward operating base the Australian 9th Division needed to drive Col. Sadahike Miyake’s 80th Regiment from its positions in an around the village of Sattleburg. One of these positions was the village Jivavenang …

Combat CommanderC3I Magazine #25
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Scenario#: 30     Date: 25-Sep-43     Location: Veliki Bukrin Bridgehead, Russia

On the night of September 24-25, the Russian 5th Airborne Brigade air assaulted into the Bukrin Bend to establish a bridgehead on the west bank of the Dnieper River. The jump was less than successful as the troopers were widely …

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Scenario#: 11     Date: August 1943     Location: Kharkov, Ukraine

Bloodied in action the against the German Panzergrenadier Division 'Grossdeutschland' during the decisive Kursk offensive, the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps remained an element of the Soviet 1st Tank Army. When that unit the assumed the offensive…

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #1 The Shape Of Battle On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: 21     Date: 8-Aug-43     Location: Northern Sicily, Sicily

While elements of the 15th and 30th Infantry Regiments of the US 9th Division seized a key hill along the San Fratello Line, Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard led a reinforced Battalion in an amphibious landing at Sant' Agata, a few …

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Scenario#: 10     Date: August 1943     Location: Orel, Russia

The Soviets launched Operation Kutuzov, named in honor of the Napoleonic era general credited with saving Moscow from the invading 1812 French forces. to draw away and pin down German forces of Army Group Center from the Kursk Offensive. It …

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Scenario#: 39     Date: 1943-07-24     Location: Munda Point, New Georgia

The US Army 34th Infantry Division advanced on the Lambeti Plantation in New Georgia with Marine tanks as it attempted to capture the Japanese Airbase at Munda Point. The fighting was intense and did not see the gains expected as …

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Scenario#: 42     Date: 1943-07-20     Location: Bairoko, New Georgia

Advance on Bairoko Harbor, New Georgia. On July 13th the Northern Landing Force lost its blocking position on the Bairoko-Munda Trail just south of Bairoko. On July 20th, Marine Commander Col. Liversedge, Naval Academy Olympian and two-time Navy…

Last Hundred YardsThe Solomon Islands
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Scenario#: 18     Date: 12 July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

After rolling over the Soviet 6th Tank Corps, the 3rd Panzer Division moved into a defensive position on the western flank of the Grossdeutsch/and Panzergrenadier Division. At the same time, the Soviet 1st Tank and 6th Guards Armies were advancing …

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #2 The Final Forces On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: 16     Date: 12 July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

As the mist cleared in the early morning Of 12 July, the 600 tanks and assault guns of the II SS Panzer Corps jumped off into what would become the largest tank battle of the war. The three SS Divisions …

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #1 The Shape Of Battle On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: 14     Date: 10 July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

By the close of the day on 9 July, the German 4th Panzer Army's XLVIII Panzer Corps reached the northernmost point of the offensive in the southern of the Kursk Salient. The next day found the German 3rd Panzer Division …

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #1 The Shape Of Battle On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: TBP11     Date: July 1943     Location: Route 120 Vicinity, Sicily

The US 7th Army battled its way through western Sicily after the collapse of the Axis beach defense forces in early July. The Italian Forces, however, were still game to defend their homeland.

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Scenario#: 12     Date: 9 July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

In a critical battle of the Soviet Central Front, the German 9th Army dashed with the Soviet 2nd Tank Army at the junction of the Northern Kursk Salient. Elements of the German 9th Panzer Division, along with attached Elefants and …

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Scenario#: TBP05     Date: July 1943     Location: Modica, Sicily

Canadian war correspondent Ross Munro recorded his experiences of the first few days of the attack on the Italian 122 lnfantry Regiment north of Pachino in a newspaper article printed on 12 July: "Stubborn Resistance has been put up by …

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Scenario#: 21     Date: 5 July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

As the German 9th Army's XXIII Corps' 78th and 216th Infantry Divisions launched a diversionary attack along the eastern flank, at 0530 hours both the XLI and XLVII Panzer Corps moved forward with the main attack in the Podolyan-Alexandrovka sectors…

Panzer (GMT)Exp. #2 The Final Forces On The Eastern Front
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Scenario#: 8     Date: July 1943     Location: Kursk, Russia

The 4th Panzer Division, as part Of the General Walter Model's 9th Army's XLVII Panzer Corps, met the Soviet 2nd Tank Army headlong on the Northern Kursk Salient. Along with the 2nd and 4th Panzer Divisions, these panzer divisions formed …

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Scenario#: M11     Date: 30-Jun-43     Location: Bobdubi Ridge, New Guinea

Following the Allied victory at Buna, Australian infantry pushed northwest toward the next enemy coastal base in a war of small-unit actions across the jungle tracks and kunai-grass heights of the interior. As a pincer with a US landing near …

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Scenario#: 64     Date: 27-Jun-43     Location: Leskovik, Albania

Outside Lekovic, Albania, with ELAS partisans in a prepared ambush against elements of the German 1st Gebirgsjäger Division, whose commander suspecting a ruse changed his attack plans.

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Scenario#: 70     Date: 26-Jun-43     Location: Daliki, Belarus

In a remote village south of Lepel, Byelorussia, with Soviet partisans of an important Operative Center suddenly trapped by a well-executed German rear-area clearing operation.

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Scenario#: 71     Date: 14-May-43     Location: Sutjeska River, Bosnia

Outside the village of Tjentište, Eastern Bosnia, at the Sutjeska River, where trapped Partisan units fought their way through a weak point in the German-Croatian lines, escaping once again although at great cost.

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Scenario#: 17     Date: 17 March 1943     Location: Borisovka, Ukraine

Manstein's counterattack had gone well, with the Germans pushing north and attacking on a wide front. They had retaken the city of Kharkov with Grossdeutschland Division to the northwest intercepting retreating Soviet units. GD had pushed the Soviet…

Fighting FormationsGrossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
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Scenario#: 9     Date: 12 March 1943     Location: Ivany-Berdyny, near Bogodukhov, Ukraine

During early March, 1943, Army Group Kempf had the mission to advance in the general direction of Belgorod as part of the new offensive to retake Kharkov. The Grossdeutschland Infantry Division formed the left wing of the Army Group with …

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Scenario#: 16     Date: 9 March 1943     Location: Bogodukhov, Ukraine

In early March the momentum in the area around the city of Kharkov was turning towards the Germans. Manstein's counterattack was pushing the Soviets back and gaining ground on all sides. Gaps were developing between the Soviet 40th and 69th …

Fighting FormationsGrossdeutschland Division's Battle for Kharkov
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Scenario#: 15     Date: 9 March 1943     Location: Alexandrovka, Ukraine

As part of the Third Battle of Kharkov the Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier Division drove north from southwest of Kharkov. Manstein’s attack had taken the Soviets by surprise as they neared the limits of their army's strength by early March. During…

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Scenario#: TBP06     Date: March 1943     Location: Central Russia

Dawn was still barely visible on the horizon. l walked back towards the artillery line which was to support the reconnaissance forces should they encounter organized Resistance.

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