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Reichswald & NutterdenScenario#: 16304 Date: 2/8/1945 Location: Nutterden, GermanyOperation Veritable was intended to eliminate all German forces west of the Rhine river and set the stage for Allied forces to eventually cross that great barrier. However, General Schlemm, the German commander of the First Parachute Army defending… Memoir '44 — VE-Day |
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Hatten & RittershoffenScenario#: 16303 Date: 1/16/1945 Location: Rittershoffen, GermanyUnternehmen Nordwind (Northwind), the drive to Strasbourg, was the last major German offensive on the Western Front. Launched on January 1, 1945, it was initially successful as the Axis forces broke through the thinly stretched U.S. 7th Army line and… Memoir '44 — VE-Day |
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HitdorfScenario#: 16300 Date: 4/6/1945 Location: Hitdorf, GermanyOn 6 April 1945, the first wave of the 82nd Airborne Division crossed the Rhine in boats and immediately made contact with the enemy. Under heavy fire and faced with a minefield, the troopers fought toward their assigned objectives and … Memoir '44 — VE-Day |
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Seelow HeightsScenario#: 16295 Date: 4/16/1945 Location: Seelow Heights, GermanyOn 16 April, the battle of Berlin started with a massive Soviet artillery barrage against General Theodor Busse’s 9th German Army, which numbered around 200,000 men and equipment. Zhukov’s Red Army, on the other hand, was a juggernaut of over … Memoir '44 — VE-Day |
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D-Day: Utah BeachScenario#: 14360 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Utah Beach, FranceJust before 6.00 on June 6, 1944, warships began a massive naval bombardment of the German defenses on Utah beach with devastating results. The strongpoints were badly hit and all communication lines were severed, preventing the Germans from… Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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D-Day: Sword BeachScenario#: 14358 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sword Beach, FranceSword Beach was the Allied landing site furthest to the east on D-Day, and closest to the formidable German forces amassed around Calais. To protect the 8th Brigade Group who was landing at Sword beach, and to set the stage … Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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D-Day: Omaha BeachScenario#: 14356 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Omaha Beach, FranceThe 3-mile stretch of beach codenamed Omaha was the heaviest defended sector of the Normandy landing sites. The Germans had built Resistance nests into the cliffs, barricaded positions on top of the naturally defensive terrain and positioned powerful… Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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D-Day: Juno BeachScenario#: 14354 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Juno Beach, FranceJuno Beach was a low, open shoreline guarded by German defenses and strong points along the length of the coastline. The powerful 3rd Canadian Infantry Division was tasked with linking the two British beaches of Sword and Gold, and capturing … Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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D-Day: Gold BeachScenario#: 14352 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Gold Beach, FranceGold Beach was three miles of low, flat beach that rose into higher ground at either end. The Germans had prepared the entire stretch of beach with barbed wire and anti-tank hedgehogs, along with bunkers and casemates manned by machine … Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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D-Day: American AirborneScenario#: 14350 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Ste-Mère-Église, FranceIn the early hours of June 6th, 1944, the American Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne and the 82nd Airborne division flew over the Normandy coast. Bad weather and heavy flak resulted in sticks being scattered, but the paratroopers were well … Memoir '44 — D-Day Landings |
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Breakthrough to GemblouxScenario#: 3496 Date: 5/13/1940 Location: Gembloux, BelgiumHannut, Belgium - May 12, 1940. Adopting the Dyle Plan, the cavalry corps of Gen. Prioux moves into Belgium, ahead of Gen. Blanchard's 1st Army to confront the German invaders. Near Hannut, French scout units find themselves facing incoming fire … Memoir '44 — Campaign Bag |
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Breakthrough to the BeachScenario#: 6541 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Luc-sur-Mer, FranceSword Beach - 07:20, June 6, 1944 - The DD tanks of 13/18 Hussars and Flails of 22 Dragoons land, followed by the men of 2nd East Yorkshire Rgt on Queen Red and those of 1st South Lancashire Rgt on … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Breakthrough at MortainScenario#: 6433 Date: 8/7/1944 Location: Saint Barthélémy, FranceWhile Patton's tanks roll through Brittany, threatening France's center, Hitler orders Field Marshal Von Kluge to launch an armored counter-attack to cut the Avranches corridor. The Germans struggle to regroup 150 tanks from the remnants of four… Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Noville to FoyScenario#: 6380 Date: 12/20/1944 Location: Noville, BelgiumBattle of the Bulge, morning of December 20, 1944 - Noville is already under attack, but the enemy seems to be groping, rather than making a concentrated attack. Fog and snow have hampered the action and the beleaguered Americans can … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Battle of Alam el HalfaScenario#: 6370 Date: 8/30/1942 Location: Alam el Halfa, EgyptThe battle of Alam el Halfa might be Rommel's last shot at defeating the British Eighth Army and taking Egypt; his Afrika Corps numerical superiority was slowing dwindling away and would soon be outnumbered by the Allies. With waiting no … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Operation AmherstScenario#: 6369 Date: 4/8/1945 Location: Groningen, HollandThe Third Reich is in its final throes. But Netherlands is still under the iron grip of the German forces, following the disaster of Operation Market-Garden. Heading North toward the heart of the Reich, the Canadian tanks and Polish artillery … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Sword BeachScenario#: 6367 Date: 6/6/1944 Location: Sword Beach, FranceThe early hours, morning of June 6, 1944 - Men of the British 6th Airborne Division airdrop inland to capture the bridges over the Orne River and canal and prevent the German armored formations in the area between Normandy and … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Battle of ProkhorovkaScenario#: 5913 Date: 7/12/1943 Location: Prokhorovka, RussiaThe morning of July 12, 1943, somewhere in the vicinity of Prokhorovka - Having successfully broken through the third line of Soviet defenses the previous evening, the tank crews of Feldmarschall Manstein's II.SS-Pz.Korps, are finishing breakfast and… Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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The Surrender of Elsters columnScenario#: 5841 Date: 8/20/1944 Location: Decize, FranceWith the landing of the Allied forces in Provence (Operation Dragoon), German occupation troops have been issued a general retreat order; As early as August 17, 1944, garrisons in the South-West of France evacuate en masse; their occupants, a long … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Counter-attack of the BEFScenario#: 5142 Date: 5/21/1940 Location: Arras, FranceFrance, May 1940 - With the first of Guderian's Panzers reaching the English Channel near Noyelles-sur-Mer, the Allied forces find themselves cut in two. The situation soon becomes untenable. Thankfully, Lord Gort's British Expeditionary Force (BEF)… Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Nach Moskau!Scenario#: 4717 Date: 11/23/1941 Location: Kimki, RussiaBy November, Operation Typhoon is in full swing. The Wermacht is at the gates of Moscow. Up North, Klin has fallen and XXXX. Panzer Korps is rumbling towards the Soviet capital. But the Russians are hanging on somehow, with ?General … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Manado LandingsScenario#: 4683 Date: 1/11/1942 Location: Manado, IndonesiaMinahasa peninsula, somewhere on the northern part of Celebes, Dutch East Indies - The Japanese offensive is in full swing. Taking advantage of the night, Sasebo combined landing force sets foot on the beach at Kema and Manado. The Dutch … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Battle of AbbevilleScenario#: 4643 Date: 5/28/1940 Location: Abbeville, FranceFrance, May 1940 - The Allied High Command has already ordered several counter-attacks against the German bridgehead on the Somme river to the south of Abbeville; alas they have all failed. After the defeat of the British 1st Armoured Division, … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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The Tatsinskaya RaidScenario#: 4000 Date: 12/24/1942 Location: Tatsinskaya, RussiaPaulus' 6th Army has been stuck in the Stalingrad pocket since November 27. Soviet Operation ?Little Saturn?, launched December 16, smashes through the front lines of Italian 8th Army, letting several Soviet armored divisions roll through. At the… Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |
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Operation CrusaderScenario#: 3129 Date: 11/19/1941 Location: Sidi Rezegh, LibyaThe Marmaric Desert, November 19, 1941 - General Auchinleck orders General Cunningham, to launch the British Eighth Army into a massive offensive into Libya in a bid to destroy the Italo-German armored divisions and free up the garrison in Tobruk. … Memoir '44 — Breakthrough |