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Scenario#: HoN22     Date: 1944-06-12     Location: Carentan, France

The men of E Company 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment entered Carentan on the morning ofJune 12th, 1944, Colonel von der Heyte. the Commander of the 6th Fallschirmjager, who were defending Carentan, had pulled all but 50 of his men from the city.…

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Scenario#: HoN21     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Normandy, France

The 3rd Para Brigade continued to take heavy casualties while aggressively defending the northeastern sector of the invasion bridgehead. The 5th Brigade, who had been placed in reserve after their courageous stand around the canal bridges during the…

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Scenario#: HoN20     Date: 1944-06-08     Location: E Of St Come Du Mont, France

During the day of June 8th, the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division assisted in the attack on St. Come du Mont. Their job was to destroy the four bridges that linked Carentan to the geninsula. It was one of their first…

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Scenario#: HoN19     Date: 1944-06-08     Location: St. Come Du Mont, France

Carentan was the key to preventing a linkup between American forces from Utah and Omaha Beach. Taking Carentan, however, meant that St. Come du Mont and the road leading southfrom the causeway to the town would have to be won. The fight started on…

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Scenario#: HoN18     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: Le Bas De Ranville, France

The 12th battalion had landed earlier in the morning and established defensive positions around the strategically important town Ranville. Here, the countryside was more open, and the 5th Para Brigade allocated their small supply of anti-tank guns…

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Scenario#: HoN17     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: Tameville, France

The men of the 6th Fallschirmjager Regiment were based near St Come du Mont en D-Day, and after successfully defending the town, commenced probing for enemy positions in an attempt to link up with other German forces. One patrol from the 2nd…

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Scenario#: HoN16     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: Sainte Honorine, France

On the second day of the invasion the British 6th Para Brigade had easily taken its first objective: the town of Longueval. The Brigade commander decided to assault the secondary objective to the southeast: the hamlet of Ste. Honorine. With …

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Scenario#: HoN15     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: Beaumont, France

Colonel Bob Sink directed the attack of his 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) against Vierville and Beaumont with the objective of capturing the southern crossroads of St. Come-du—Mont. It was early on June 7th when the two battalions moved…

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Scenario#: HoN14     Date: 1944-06-07     Location: Vierville, France

The French village of Vierville straddled the road from Utah Beach to St. Come du Mont, a location key to the Americans and Germans alike. The Yanks captured Vierville on June 6th. 1944. but on June 7th, most of the …

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Scenario#: HoN13     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Chef Du Pont, France

After attacks by men ofthe 507th and 508th PlR, the German forces defending the bridge at Chef Du Pont withdrew across the bridge and set up defensive positions along the opposite bank. Further American attacks were thwarted by a fierce defense until…

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Scenario#: HoN12     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Ouistreham, France

One of the objectives on D-Day for the British 1st Special Service Brigade was to clear the gun emplacements outside the seaside resort of Ouistreham. Captain Kieffer, in charge of the contingent of Free-French Commandos, asked permission to lead the…

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Scenario#: HoN11     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Le Port, France

The Ox and Bucks had taken the Orne canal bridge and quickly established a perimeter. Now, they had to hold it while facing greater German resistance. Even worse was the incessant sniper fire coming from west of their positions. …

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Scenario#: HoN10     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Ranville, France

The British 3rd Para brigade under Brigadier James Hill had successfully accomplished their D Day objectives, but with heavy casualties. They then established holding positions north of the town of Ranville. Ranviiie was key in defending the British…

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Scenario#: HoN09     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: St Mere Eglise, France

The town of St Mere Eglise was one of the first towns liberated by the Allied forces during D-Day. Men of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division secured the town with minimal resistance early on…

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Scenario#: HoN08     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Foucarville, France

Pulling together in groups of twos and threes, the men of the 101st Airborne slowly formed a semblance of unit cohesion. Because the Germans were confused, overwhelmed, or unable to coordinate a defense, by the dawn of June 6th the American…

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Scenario#: HoN07     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Benouville, France

Benouvilie, a town crucial in stemming any German counterattacks against the canal bridges and the invasion itself, was defended by a small holding force of the Ox and Bucks. They had successfully fended off early morning German probes, but had …

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Scenario#: HoN06     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Mézières, France

The XYZ complex Was a group of buildings that housed a German artillery battalion. Clearing the buildings had originally been assigned to a platoon from A Company, 502nd PIR, but the company scattered well north of their objective. Hence, the 502nd's…

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Scenario#: HoN05     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Neuville, France

Lieutenant Turner Turnbull was a Native American, half Cherokee in fact, something that would have made him a second class citizen in mid 20th century America, but mattered not to his brothers in arms. On June 6th, his battalion, the 2nd of the…

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Scenario#: HoN04     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Sw Of Neuville, France

Lieutenant John Dolan was the commanding officer of Able Company of the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. His company conducted a textbook drop on the night of June 6, collecting all but two of the 136 men assigned. Able Company's…

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Scenario#: HoN03     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Normandy, France

Thousands of paratroopers dropped on Normandy during the night of June 6, 1944. To avoid flak, most of the planes flew too low and too fast to place their "sticks” in their assigned dropzones. Paratroogers were scattered between the beaches and their…

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Scenario#: HoN02     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: Benouville, France

After months of rehearsals, D Company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (familiarly referred to as the "Ox and Bucks") under Major John Howard, lifted off in towed Horsa gliders during the later hours of June the 5th, headed …

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Scenario#: HoN01     Date: 1944-06-06     Location: St.germain De Varreville, France

Captain Frank L. Lillyman led his Pathfinders out the door of their C-47 troop transports and into the night sky over Normandy. At 0015 hrs. 6 June 1944, when his boots struck the dew soaked grass, Lillyman became the first U.S. soldier to set foot…

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Scenario#: DJ06     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

Just after 1:00 PM. on July 12th, the German 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH was attacked from the east by a Soviet mixed infantry/tank force from the 29th Tank Corps, yet another attempt to halt the Nazi advance to Prokhorovka. …

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Scenario#: DJ05     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

At 6:00 A.M. on the morning of July 12, the leading elements of the 1St SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH were gatheríng for an advance toward Prokhorovka. Meanwhile, remnants of the 26th Guards Airborne Regiment was preparing a last defense line…

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Scenario#: DJ04     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

Fierce fighting had been raging all morning, and by 1:00 p.m. the Soviet forces had taken up well-defended positions at the Oktiabrskii State Farm. The LAH needed to capture the farm to secure the left flank of its advance towards Prokhorovka. The…

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Scenario#: DJ03     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

At: 10:15 A.M. elements of the 1St SS Panzergrenadier Division LAH were ordered to advance and take the anti-tank ditches to the east of Hill 252.2. The attack was launched in an attempt to clear out the anti-tank ditches and the surrounding area to…

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Scenario#: DJ02     Date: 1943-07-11     Location: Prokhorovka, Russia

On July 10, 1943, after a long and violent fight, Hill 241.1 had finally been taken. Farther to the east, some units from the Aufklarung Abteilung had reached the outskirts of the Oktiabrskii State Farm and reported that the Soviets had set up a…

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Scenario#: DJ01     Date: 1943-07-09     Location: Ponyri, Russia

On the north side of the Kursk salient, General Model's Ninth Army pushed south. A key objective was the town of Ponyri, and there the fighting raged. The city was contested so fiercely that veterans named it the Stalingrad of the Kursk salient. Not…

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Scenario#: HotM17     Date: 1942-12-16     Location: Sw Of Stalingrad, Russia

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Scenario#: HotM16     Date: 1942-12-15     Location: Verkhne-kumsky, Russia

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Scenario#: HotM15     Date: 1942-12-14     Location: Sw Of Stalingrad, Russia

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Scenario#: HotM14     Date: 1942-12-13     Location: Verkhne-kumsky, Russia

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Scenario#: HotM13     Date: 1942-12-13     Location: Sw Of Stalingrad, Russia

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Scenario#: HotM12     Date: 1945-02-22     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Hitler's Operation Spring Awakening, using six Waffen SS divisions to counterattack and relieve entrapped units in Budapest, was off to a slow start. Mud and dogged Russian defiance once again were the culprits, denying quick rnaneuver and advance.…

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Scenario#: HotM11     Date: 1944-02-16     Location: Lysyanka, Russia

Once again, the Soviet armies had encircled German forces on the tenuous and dynamic Ost Front. The encircled this time were six German Divisions that had been holding defensive positions along the Dnepr River in the Korsun Pocket. German High…

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Scenario#: HotM10     Date: 1943-07-12     Location: Prochorovka, Russia

Right after 5 a.m., on July 12th, hundreds of Soviet tanks and assault guns rolled out of Prochorovka and slammed into the German SS Leibstandarte Division, which had stalled just west of the town. Streams of T-34 and T-70 tanks, loaded with…

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Scenario#: HotM09     Date: 1943-01-12     Location: S Of Livny, Russia

The Soviet winter offensive of 1943 threw the Germans back along the breadth of the Eastern Front, frequently creating ruptures in the Wehrmacht's line, both large and small. In this fictitious scenario, a small German reconnaissance group, probing…

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Scenario#: HotM08     Date: 1942-12-31     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

Operation Uranus had been a success for Soviet command. They had effectively encircled the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. The Germans formed a defensive perimeter (nicknamed, The Cauldron) and dug in, still hoping they would soon be relieved. The…

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Scenario#: HotM07     Date: 1942-12-08     Location: Nw Of Verchne Solonovski, Russia

German High Command launched a counter offensive to attempt to relieve the encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad, and made steady progress, approaching within 25 miles of the 6th Anny lines before the Soviets retaliated. After some initial success, the…

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Scenario#: HotM06     Date: 1942-11-22     Location: Kalach, Russia

The Final objective for Russia's Operation Uranus was to seal off any escape for the embattled 6th Army by taking the bridge over the Don River at Kalach. Using a handful of captured tanks, Lieutenant-Colonel Filippov drove right through cheering…

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Scenario#: HotM05     Date: 1942-10-01     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

On the 26th of September, 1942, Y.F. Pavlov and three other Soviet Soldiers of the 13th Guards Rifle Division, searched and secured a large apartment house on the edge of the 9 January Square known as the House of Soviets No.4. Pavlov and a mix-match…

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Scenario#: HotM04     Date: 1942-10-01     Location: Bryansk Forest, Russia

Partisan forces became better organized as the war in the east entered its second year. There was exceptionally strong partisan activity in the Bryansk forest of modern day Belorus. From the forest, thousands of partisans and clandestine Russian…

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Scenario#: HotM03     Date: 1942-10-30     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

The 14th Panzer Division had been given the task of clearing the southern area of the city known as the Bread Factory and getting to the Volga River. Suffering horrendous casualties, the Germans took the Bread Factory and were just 50 meters from the…

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Scenario#: HotM02     Date: 1942-09-01     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

For months the Germans had pushed the Soviets across the steppes. The Soviet's victories of the previous winter were but a bad dream, long forgotten. German Panzers ruled the plains, Bf-109s ruled the sky, and all was right with the world. It was,…

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Scenario#: HotM01     Date: 1942-09-21     Location: Stalingrad, Russia

After a few initial set hacks, German forces were making steady progress towards clearíng the city of Soviet troops. On September 20th, a German infantry assault was repulsed around the building known as the Nail Factory by stalwart elements of the…

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Scenario#: HiD32     Date: 1940-06-18     Location: Heming, France

On the day General DeGaulle issued his call from London, one day after Pétain called for ceasefire and Armistice, the French Army fought one last battle. The men who were charged with defending the Maginot Line now had to defend …

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Scenario#: HiD31     Date: 1940-06-15     Location: Near Meuse, France

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Scenario#: HiD30     Date: 1940-06-11     Location: St. Pierre-le-viger, France

The British 51st Highland Division was being squeezed into a small pocket around the town of Dieppe by Erwin Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division. Rommel was doing his best to capture the division before it could escape across the …

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Scenario#: HiD29     Date: 1940-06-10     Location: Perthes, France

On June 9th, the Germans crossed the Aisne River near Bethel. But they needed to increase the bridgehead to allow all their tanks to cross the Aisne. While the 1st and 2nd Panzer Divisions strengthened the Aisne bridgehead, the 17th …

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Scenario#: HiD28     Date: 1940-06-07     Location: Airaines, France

Dunkirk had fallen, the Belgian Army had surrendered, and the British had left. The best French divisions were trapped in the north and the east. The situation was desperate. Behind the Somme River. every village was hastily fortified in hopes …

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