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Scenario#: ABTF01     Date: 9/17/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland

The primary objective of the British 1st Airborne Division was the main road bridge in Arnhem. The three battalions of the 1st Parachute Brigade were to drive for the bridge along three separate routes. 2nd Parachute Battalion’s route – “Lion” – took…

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Scenario#: BRT07     Date: 11/22/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

Major Jim Crowe had been tasked with continuing the attack along the northeast portion of Betio Island. Before the attack could really begin, however, a major obstacle had to be removed -- a large bombproof emplacement stood directly in front of the…

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Scenario#: BRT06     Date: 11/20/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

In the pre-dawn light, the first amphibious invasion of a fortified beach began. Marines of 2/2 were slated to hit Red Beach Two, while those of 3/2 were assigned Red Beach One. Colonel Shoup, commander of the Regimental Landing Team, had planned for…

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Scenario#: BRT05     Date: 11/22/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

By 1930 hours on D+2, General "Howlin' Mad" Smith was on shore to personally take command of his Second Division. Plans were made for the 6th Marines to clear up the remaining one thousand or so Japanese rikusentai. Incredibly, by the third night an…

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Scenario#: BRT04     Date: 11/23/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

One objective the Marines should have captured by D+2 was the junction between Red Beach One and Red Beach Two. But Commander Sugai, second in command on Betio and commander of the Sasebo 7th Rikusentai, had made the area - dubbed the "Pocket" by the…

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Scenario#: BRT03     Date: 11/22/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

D-Day for the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines called for K and I Companies to land in the initial assault wave, followed by L Company under Major Michael Ryan. K and I Companies were pinned down by enfilading fire from the re-entrant beach. Like everyone…

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Scenario#: BRT02     Date: 11/20/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

The M4A2 Sherman was seen by Marine crews for the first time aboard the transport Ashland while en route from "Helen". Company C of the 2nd Tank Battalion was given the new monsters. The 1st Platoon under Lt. Edward Bale would take six Shermans to…

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Scenario#: BRT01     Date: 11/21/1943     Location: Betio Island, Tarawa

Lt. Dean Hawkins and his Scout Sniper platoon had the distinction of being the first American force on Betio. Hawkins led a detachment of engineers and Scout Snipers along the pier on D-Day, taking out bunkers and buildings likely to be in the way of…

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Scenario#: PB06     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

Tthe final relief of the British paratroopers at dusk. The British get a massive force, including ponderous but impenetrable Churchill tanks, but have to clear the Germans out of every building.

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Scenario#: PB05     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

Continuous counterattacks were steadily pushing the paratroopers of Major Taylor’s company back inBenouville. Most of the paratroopers were wounded, including Taylor himself, but continued to fight as they had no place to retreat. The 7th Battalion’s…

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Scenario#: PB04     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Le Port, France

As D-Day progressed, the German counterattacks in Benouville grew fiercer and fiercer, but life for the defenders of the canal bridge was dangerous for one main reason – sniper fire. Unable to move about freely, something had to be done to reduce the…

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Scenario#: PB03     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

Colonel Hans Von Luck, commander of the 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, stewed while waiting for permission to move his unit to counterattack the British forces in Benouville and Le Port. It would violate direct orders if he moved his unit, but he…

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Scenario#: PB02     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

The British coup de main force had been on the ground for nearly an hour and a half. The capture of the bridges over the Orne River and Canal de Caen had been spectacularly successful. Lt. Fox’s platoon had arrived from the Orne River bridge to…

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Scenario#: PB01     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Benouville, France

One of the first objectives of Operation Overlord was the seizure of the bridges over the Orne River and Canal de Caen just west of Ranville. The bridges were vital links to the British 6th Airborne’s bridgehead over the Orne on the Allied left…

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Scenario#: KGP11     Date: 12/23/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

Mangled guns and the burned-out wreckage of vehicles littered the area in and around the ruined village of La Gleize. From their defensive strongpoints the remnants of Peiper's command scanned the approaches for signs of a renewed attack. The…

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Scenario#: KGP10     Date: 12/22/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

In a desperate bid to break out of the ever-tightening American stranglehold, Peiper decided to mount an attack toward Borgoumont, using the remainder of his precious fuel to give renewed mobility to several of his panzers. Before dawn, SS…

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Scenario#: KGP09     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

The American paratroopers of Companies B and C of the 504th PIR, having neither artillery nor armor support available, had failed during the daylight to make any headway against the Germans defending Cheneux. Nevertheless, they were ordered by the…

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Scenario#: KGP08     Date: 12/24/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

Peiper and most of his remaining men had silently evacuated the La Gleize pocket on foot during the night of 23-24 December. At 0745 on the following, bitterly cold, morning, two American infantry companies pushed southeast through the Bois de…

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Scenario#: KGP07     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Cheneux, Belgium

By the afternoon of the 21st, Col. Tucker had ordered the 3rd Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment to assist the 1st Battalion in its attempt to capture Cheneux and the bridge over the Ambleve. Company G entered the western end of the…

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Scenario#: KGP06     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

Task Force McGeorge departed the Spa area at about 0800 on the 20th, its mission to proceed to La Gleize. Moving south, it arrived at Borgoumont around noon, where it linked up with Company K of the 117th Infantry and the 1st and 2nd Platoons of…

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Scenario#: KGP05     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: La Gleize, Belgium

A small German group comprised of only a King Tiger, a Pz IV, a Puma armored car, one halftrack and fifteen men with a Panzerschreck, drew back to an old mill known as the Moulin Marechal to cover the southern approach to La Gleize. In the late…

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Scenario#: KGP04     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

As the third prong of the concentric American attack planned for 21 December against Peiper's Stoumont defenses, major Hal McCown's 2/119th Infantry was to move south through the Bois de Bassenge and cut the N.33 between La Gleize and Stoumont, then…

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Scenario#: KGP03     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

Early on the morning of 20 December, Task Force Jordan of Combat Command B, 3rd Armored Division, had set out from Theux. Its destination was the German defenses at Stoumont, some ten miles to the south. As its point vehicles, proceeding down the…

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Scenario#: KGP02     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

The American plan of attack against Stoumont for the morning of December 21st was ambitious. The depleted 1/119th Infantry was to push east and seize the sanatorium. Upon its capture, the even weaker 3/119th was to attack southward in conjunction…

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Scenario#: KGP01     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: Stoumont, Belgium

The initial objective of Task Force Harrison was the recapture of the St. Edouard Sanatorium, a large brick building dominating the heights on the northwestern outskirts of Stoumont. At twilight, partially concealed by a dense mist, the GIs attacked…

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Scenario#: U13     Date: 3/15/1945     Location: Pfaffenheck, Germany

German General Hoehme had to buy time. Every day the way was clear allowed additional isolated units to filter back towards the Rhine. At a time of frightful manpower shortages, he decided to commit two of his remaining combat effective units to…

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Scenario#: U12     Date: 3/15/1945     Location: Pfaffenheck, Germany

At the same time that the SS mountain troopers were striking one flank of the U.S. 357th Regiment, the Wehrmacht’s 159th Division struck the other. Every effort was to be made to prevent the Americans from establishing an artillery OP in the large…

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Scenario#: U11     Date: 3/15/1945     Location: Pfaffenheck, Germany

Between the Moselle and the Rhine rivers, the US Army ground forward on a broad front. The Germans struggled to hold open escape routes to the Rhine. General Hoehne launched two simultaneous counterattacks. The first, by newly arrived SS troops, was…

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Scenario#: U10     Date: 2/27/1945     Location: Elsdorf, Germany

In an attempt to give American armor a fighting chance against heavy German tanks, the army Ordnance Department developed the T26 Medium tank, better known as the Pershing. Carrying a 90mm gun and heavy frontal armor, the Pershing was rushed into…

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Scenario#: U09     Date: 12/27/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium

The 101st Airborne was desperately low on ammunition, trapped near Bastogne. A desperate attempt to resupply the pocket was formulated. 50 Waco and Horsa gliders, towed from bases in England by C-47s, flown by volunteer pilots, attempted to re-supply…

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Scenario#: U08     Date: 12/16/1944     Location: Schnee Eifel Region, Germany

As the German Ardennes offensive got underway, the 62nd Volks Grenadier Division opened its attack by hurling two regiments against the 424th Infantry in an attempt to breakthrough at Winterspelt. The most serious threat developed at the Weissenhof…

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Scenario#: U07     Date: 11/11/1944     Location: Han-sur-Neid, France

It will never be known who ordered the charge. Perhaps it was Colonel Burnette, who was mortally wounded as his men neared the 100 foot bridge. Perhaps it was simply the sight of Lt. Edwards' tanks edging across the unblown span that drew the men…

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Scenario#: U06     Date: 11/4/1944     Location: Kommerscheidt, Germany

The US 28th Division made a limited flanking division in the Huertgen Forest to take the town of Schmidt. Although the town fell easily to the divisional attack, a strong German counterattack soon followed and routed the Schmidt defenders. Moreover,…

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Scenario#: U05     Date: 10/9/1944     Location: Bardenberg, Germany

As the majority of the 119th Infantry Regiment advanced into North Wuerselen, they left behind a reduced company deployed around a roadblock to protect their line of communication. There seemed little chance of significant action. Suddenly, as light…

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Scenario#: U04     Date: 9/20/1944     Location: Nijmegen, Holland

During Operation Market Garden, the road bridge in Nijmegen was the second of three bridges which had to be secured in order to relieve the British 1st Airborne and throw a force across the Rhine. A task force comprised of a mixture of U.S.…

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Scenario#: U03     Date: 2/11/1944     Location: Aprilia Settlement, Italy

As the initial expansion of the Allied beachhead at Anzio drew to a halt, the inevitable counterattacks began. The main attacks concentrated on the Albano-Anzio highway around the village of Carroceto and the Aprilia farm settlement known to the…

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Scenario#: U02     Date: 12/10/1942     Location: Bordj Toum Station, Tunisia

The Fifth Panzer Army in an effort to expand its position around Tunis, sent the 86th Panzer Grenadier Regiment supported by armor from the 7th Panzer Regiment on a two-pronged attack along both sides of the Medjerda River. If the Germans were to…

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Scenario#: BOF24     Date: 8/18/1945     Location: Shumshu, Kuril Islands

Shumshu is the northernmost of the Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific near Kamchatka. In mid-August 1945, just after the Japanese surrender, the Russians set out to seize the island. The instructions that had been given to the surrendering Japanese…

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Scenario#: BOF23     Date: 4/26/1945     Location: Berlin, Germany

The Red Army had finally reached Berlin. In the suburb of Neukölln, SS troopers and the Russians struggled for control of the courthouse. Not until both flanks had crumbled under Russian pressure and two streets were the only open withdrawal route…

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Scenario#: BOF22     Date: 4/16/1945     Location: Neu Glietzen, Germany

In mid-April 1945, the time had come for the Red Army to cross the last major natural obstacle before Berlin - the Oder river. One of the many planned crossings was the 61st Army's effort to get the 8th Penal Battalion across to the south side of a…

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Scenario#: BOF21     Date: 3/27/1945     Location: Gdansk, Poland

Before the outbreak of the war, some French groups questioned why France would go to war with Germany over Poland and "die for Danzig". However, any French reluctance to fight did not prevent the outbreak of the war. In March 1945 the front lines ran…

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Scenario#: BOF20     Date: 1/27/1945     Location: Liebstadt, Germany

On 26 January the breakout attempt of the now-encircled 4. Armee began. The main blow fell on Russian 53rd Rifle Corps of the 48th Army. Two Russian rifle divisions were enveloped and two more driven to the rear. The 131. Infanterie-Division…

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Scenario#: BOF19     Date: 7/27/1944     Location: San Casciano, Italy

During six months of static mountain warfare around Cassino, the New Zealand Divisional Cavalry had found little use for their lumbering Staghound armored cars. This changed after Rome fell. In hot pursuit of the retreating enemy in the Liri valley,…

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Scenario#: BOF18     Date: 7/5/1944     Location: Miory, Belarus

On 4 July a Russian offensive cut off Grenadier-Regiment 437. A kampfgruppe lead by Lieutenant Bidermann fell back and soon only a small village stood between them and friendly lines. The seemingly deserted settlement hid Russian infantry backed by…

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Scenario#: BOF17     Date: 11/20/1943     Location: Brusilov, Ukraine

Manstein's counterattack near Fastov pushed the 3rd Guards Tank Army on to the defensive, but he could not quite deliver a repeat of the “backhand blow” as he had hoped. The new Panther battalions arrived for the attack, but by now the grenadier and…

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Scenario#: BOF16     Date: 9/4/1942     Location: Karmanovo, Russia

In August 1942 the Red Army attempted to retake Rzhev and eliminate the most dangerous threat to the Russian capital. After almost a month of relentless attacks and bitter fighting, the Red Army had made only very small gains. On 4 September the…

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Scenario#: BOF15     Date: 6/10/1942     Location: Sevastapol, Crimea

On 7 June, the Germans broke through Sevastopol's outer defensive ring. Three days later, Mekenziyevy Mountain train station and a nearby road junction known as the Forsthaus (Forester's House) were captured. The Russian 79th Naval Infantry Brigade…

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Scenario#: BOF14     Date: 9/20/1939     Location: Grodno, Poland

Ill-equipped, undermanned and lacking any anti-tank artillery, the Polish defenders relied mostly on improvised anti-tank means such as bottles of gasoline or turpentine, small arms fire, and anti-tank obstacles. On 20 September, the tanks of the…

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Scenario#: BOF13     Date: 9/10/1939     Location: Janowice, Poland

After a week of war, the German invasion of Poland ran according to plans. German troops of the 8. Armee were marching eastward on Warsaw, and on the other side of the Bzura river were Polish troops withdrawing in the same direction. Stretched along…

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Scenario#: BOF12     Date: 8/13/1945     Location: Chongjin, Korea

On 9 August 1945 the Russians unleashed a massive offensive aiming to destroy the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Russian naval forces would capture the vital port of Chongjin and cut the Japanese supply route. Led by twice-Hero of the Soviet…

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