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Relief of Peiper Scenario#: 1242     Date: 12/21/1944     Location: Trois Ponts, Belgium Ordered to move to the relief of Kampfgruppe 'Peiper', Max Hansen on December 21st started probing with his battlegroup between Trois Ponts and Grand Halleux. The 505th Parachute Regiment had established a defensive front to defend or blow the… Memoir '44 — Fire & Movement Magazine #137
Attack on Hill 192 Scenario#: 27     Date: 7/11/1944     Location: La Croix-Rouge, France The attack on Hill 192 was only one part of a larger operation east of the Vire directed at St-Lo. This dominating height had been a thorn in the flank of the 1st army for some time. The enemy forces … Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #52
Strasbourg Scenario#: 28     Date: 1/11/1945     Location: Strasbourg, France On the 7th of January 1945, the German Nineteen Army initiated an attack south of Strasbourg against the First French Army. Code-named 'Sonnenwende' ("Winter Solstice"), the operation led by the 198th Volksgrenadier Division and 106th Panzer Brigade… Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #58
Defense of Meiktila Scenario#: 1639     Date: 3/14/1945     Location: Meiktila, Burma By early March of 1945, the 17th Indian Division in Burma, under the command of British Major-General David Tennent "Punch" Cowan captured the city of Meiktila, taking just 4 days to defeat the nearly 4000 Japanese who held it. The … Memoir '44 — Game Trade Magazine #96
Dug in at Sidi Omar Scenario#: 1324     Date: 11/25/1941     Location: Sidi Omar, Libya Having extricated himself from a very precarious position at Sidi Rezegh airfield, Rommel looked for ways to press his advantage. He sent his Afrikakorps toward Sidi Omar, in the hope of re-establishing himself on the border and turning his victory … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Flanking Maneuver at Bir Hakeim Scenario#: 4230     Date: 5/27/1942     Location: Bir Hakeim, Libya Following on the success of Operation Crusader, the British Eighth Army had driven Rommel's forces out of Cyrenaica before over-stretching its own supply lines again. Eighth Army had then settled along the "Gazala line" in the desert, west of Tobruk,… Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Panzers versus Grants Scenario#: 4231     Date: 5/27/1942     Location: Gazala, Libya The same day as the battle at Bir Hakeim, further on the right, 15th Panzer engaged the rest of the 7th Armoured Division. After sweeping over the 7th Motorized Brigade, the Panzers ran into heavy Resistance from the Grants of … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
1st Armoured to the rescue Scenario#: 4232     Date: 5/27/1942     Location: Gazala, Libya By late morning, his left flank overrun by the coordinated mass of German Panzers, General Neil Ritchie, commander of the Eighth Army, ordered two armored brigades of Norrie's 1st Armoured Division south to the rescue. Moving in column, the 22nd … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Into the Cauldron Scenario#: 4237     Date: 6/5/1942     Location: Sidi Muftah, Libya Despite their success against the British 7th Armoured, the Panzer divisions had lost their momentum. Rommel's Afrikakorps was now trapped in a region known as "the Cauldron;" with Bir Hakeim to the south and Tobruk to the north still firmly … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Escape via the Coastal Road Scenario#: 4241     Date: 6/14/1942     Location: El Adem, Libya Building up their forces through the now opened supply lines, Rommel's Afrikakorps eventually broke out of the cauldron, seizing Bir Hakeim but only capturing about 500 wounded Frenchmen . On June 13 "Black Sunday", 21st Panzer shreds the 22nd… Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Hellfire Pass Scenario#: 4245     Date: 6/15/1941     Location: Halfaya Pass, Egypt 2 miles inland, on the Egyptian-Libyan border, Halfaya Pass carves a natural route through the 600 foot high escarpment that extends southeast toward Sollum. In World War II, whoever controlled the pass held the main westward access into Libya and … Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Sidi Rezegh Airfield Scenario#: 4246     Date: 11/22/1941     Location: Sidi Rezegh, Libya Operation Crusader, the third and ultimately successful British attempt to try and break Rommel's stranglehold on Tobruk, began in a horrendous rainstorm on November 18, 1941. While one British corps was taking up position near Halfaya Pass, the… Memoir '44 — Mediterranean Theater
Pegasus Bridge Scenario#: 2     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Bénouville, France The late hours of June 5, 1944... Led by Major John Howard, the men of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry* step aboard six Horsa gliders on a secret airfield in Dorset. Their mission: to launch the first airborne assault of … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Sainte-Mère-Eglise Scenario#: 3     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France Establishment of a defensive base at Ste. Mère-Église was one of the key objectives of the US 82nd Airborne Division. In contrast with other regiments, the 505th Parachute Infantry, landing northwest of Ste. Mère-Église, had one of the most accurate… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Sword Beach Scenario#: 4     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sword Beach, France The 8th Brigade Group of the 3rd British Division, supported by Commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade and the amphibious Sherman tanks of the 13th and 18th Hussars, formed the first wave of Allied forces to land on "Sword" … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Mont Mouchet Scenario#: 5     Date: 6/10/1944     Location: Mont Mouchet, France On June 10th, three tactical groups from the Wehrmacht, about 2,000 men with armored support, converged on Mont Mouchet. Simultaneously moving in from the west (Saint Flour), north (Langeac and Pinols) and east (Le Puy-en-Velay et Saugues) they were… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Pointe-du-Hoc Scenario#: 7     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pointe-du-Hoc, France Planners felt that the German batteries on Pointe-du-Hoc would be one of the most daunting threats to Allied forces landing on Omaha in the morning of D-Day. Set atop 100 foot cliffs west of the beach, the guns' range were … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Omaha Beach First Assault Wave Scenario#: 11     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Omaha Beach, France "Never had there been a dawn like this." - Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day The US assault waves on Omaha Beach were led by the 116th Regimental Combat Team, destined for Dog sector on the left; and the 16th Regimental … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Omaha Beach Overlord Scenario#: 13     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Omaha Beach, France The US assault waves on Omaha Beach were led by the 116th Regimental Combat Team, destined for Dog sector on the left; and the 16th Regimental Combat Team hitting Easy and Fox sectors. The first wave also included two battalions … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Operation Cobra Scenario#: 15     Date: 7/25/1944     Location: Marigny, France Operation "Cobra" was predicated on the saturation bombing of German lines over a narrow front. After the bombing, an attack would be made by three infantry divisions, with two armored and one infantry divisions held in reserve of this breakout … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Operation Luttich Counter-attack on Mortain Scenario#: 16     Date: 8/7/1944     Location: Mortain, France "We must strike like lightning!" - Adolf Hitler to Field Marshall Von Kluge Operation Luttich' began shortly before midnight on the evening of August 3rd. Under direct orders from Hitler, four armored divisions launched a counterattack westward… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Montélimar Champaign for Southern France Scenario#: 18     Date: 8/25/1944     Location: Montélimar, France The Montelimar battle square, bounded on three sides by rivers, covered ground that alternated between flat open farmland and rugged hills and woods. Route N-7, the main north-south artery, runs along the Rhone River and was vital to the German … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Vassieux, Vercors Scenario#: 19     Date: 7/21/1944     Location: Vassieux, France Hotbed of the French Resistance, the "Maquis" of Vercors became one of the largest of its kind in the early months of 1944, with countless young French recruits joining up. Resistance camps were established around many villages such as Vassieux, … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
St Vith, Ardennes Scenario#: 20     Date: 12/20/1944     Location: St Vith, Belgium As early as August 1944, Adolf Hitler began formulating plans for what would become the Ardennes offensive. While too ambitious for the available resources and terrain, the plan was deemed by the German High Command as having more chances of … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Liberation of Paris Scenario#: 22     Date: 8/24/1944     Location: Paris, France Conscious of the highly symbolic and political importance of Paris, Allied forces initially planned to surround the city and wait for its capitulation rather than risk taking it, with the inherent costs of street-by-street fighting and obvious risks… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Toulon Champaign for Southern France Scenario#: 23     Date: 8/20/1944     Location: Toulon, France Plans for the landings and campaign in southern France called for the French II Corps to take the port cities of Toulon and Marseille. Seeking to exploit German weakness in the area, General de Lattre de Tassigny pushed up the … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Arracourt Scenario#: 24     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arracourt, France Part of the problem for the German forces involved in the Lorraine counter-offensive was the "Eastern" outlook of many of the units. They were unfamiliar with the US Army and its very different tactics. On the Eastern front, tank formations … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Arnhem Bridge Scenario#: 25     Date: 9/17/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland The largest Airborne drop ever designed, Operation Market Garden was Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's plan to end the war on the Western Front early. If successful, it would threaten the flanks of German defenses along the Siegfried line and… Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Saverne Gap, Vosges Scenario#: 29     Date: 11/19/1944     Location: Saverne, France The Saverne Gap, cutting through the Vosges mountains, was the key to Strasbourg, capital city of Alsace. On November 21st, the US Seventh Army XV Corps, under the command of General Wade Hampton Halslip, arrived to the front lines at … Memoir '44 — Memoir 44
Groesbeek Heights Scenario#: 1296     Date: 9/18/1944     Location: Groesbeek Heights, Holland By September 17th, during Operation Market Garden, the 82nd Airborne had secured most of its objectives, except for the Nijmegen bridges. Late that day, reports were received at General Gavin's headquarters that German troops, namely battlegroups,… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
North of Oosterbeek Scenario#: 1297     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Oosterbeek, Holland The 4th British Parachute Brigade landed as part of the second lift the evening of the 18th. At dawn on the 19th they moved out to take the high ground north of Arnhem. From this position they would be able … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Koevering Corridor Raid Scenario#: 1298     Date: 9/24/1944     Location: Koevering, Holland On September 24, 1944, German Fallschirmjaegers, led by Major Hans Jungwirth who knew the ground well, approached the small hamlet of Koevering almost undetected. At about 1900 hours the destruction began as the German units poured heavy fire into… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Reinforce Arnhem Scenario#: 1299     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Ooosterbeek, Holland On September 19th, with Major Urquhart missing, Brigadier Hicks assumed command and was determined to adhere to his mission of reinforcing the 2nd Paratroopers holding Arnhem Bridge. Hicks' force of the 1st, 3rd,11th Paratroopers and South… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Elst Scenario#: 1303     Date: 9/21/1944     Location: Elst, Holland The British XXX Corps took the Nijmegen bridge then waited for nineteen hours to move toward Arnhem. This delay enabled the Germans to transform what had been a weak defensive line into a strong blocking force around the town of … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Cherkasskoye Scenario#: 1366     Date: 7/5/1943     Location: Cherkasskoye, Russia On July 5th General Otto Von Knobelsdorff's XLVIII Panzer Corps went on the offensive in front of Cherkasskoye. His first day objective was to take the village and then push on to the River Pena. The 10th Panzer advanced on … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Isneauville Junction Scenario#: 4590     Date: 6/8/1940     Location: Isneauville, France The British army was putting up strong Resistance in France while the B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) was being evacuated at Dunkirk. Another such Resistance took place near Isneauville Junction, where once again an ad-hoc force of British rifle… Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of Kalamata waterfront Scenario#: 17275     Date: 4/28/1941     Location: Kalamata waterfront, Greece In late April 1941, the battle of Greece was lost for the Allies. Like the previous year in Dunkirk, the British troops were evacuated by the Royal Navy. In the Peloponnese, some elements of the 16th Australian Brigade and service … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Capture of Meiktila Scenario#: 17598     Date: 3/1/1945     Location: Meiktila, Burma The attack of Meiktila was conducted by the 17th Indian Infantry Division under the command of Major General Cowan. He ordered the 63th Brigade to attack the city from the west, while the 48th Brigade engaged from the north and … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of Wau Scenario#: 18749     Date: 1/28/1943     Location: Wau, New Guinea In 1942, in New Guinea, the village of Wau and its small airfield was the base of the Kanga Force, an Australian unit that harassed the Japanese troops in Lae and Salamaua. In January 1943, Japanese command decided to capture … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Main Line of Resistance Scenario#: 18784     Date: 1/16/1944     Location: Arawe, New Britian After the landing at Arawe in Papau New Guinea, US troops established a main line of Resistance (MLR) at the foot of the peninsula to secure the bridgehead. Japanese troops were equally entrenched on their side, driving back the initial … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Division Sabratha attack Scenario#: 19099     Date: 5/29/1942     Location: The Cauldron, Libya While German panzers were trapped in the "Cauldron", Rommel asked General Crüewell to attack along the coast with the Italian infantry divisions in order to harass the British army or to break the Gazala line. The Italian division Sabratha attacked … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of Pico Scenario#: 19679     Date: 5/22/1944     Location: Pico, Italy After the battle of the Garigliano and the French advance in the Aurunci Mountains, the Gustav line was broken and German units had to withdraw. The time had come for the French armored cavalry units which supported the advance of … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of Maciejow Scenario#: 20028     Date: 7/7/1944     Location: Maciejow, Ukraine On the 22nd of June 1944, the Soviet army launched Operatsiya Bagration against Heeresgruppe "Mitte". In the area of Kovel, in western Ukraine, the II/SS-Pz Rgt.5, equipped with Panther tanks, had to defend the city of Maciejow. On the 7th … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of the Grain Elevator Scenario#: 20228     Date: 9/16/1942     Location: Stalingrad, Russia The attack of the city of Stalingrad by the German 6 Armee began on September 13th. The southern part of the city was attacked by four divisions of the 48 PanzerKorps under the command of General Kempf. On September 16th, … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Gambut Scenario#: 20366     Date: 6/17/1942     Location: Gambut, Libya Before the attack of Tobruk, Rommel decided to capture the airfields around Gambut in order to annihilate the RAF and to protect the "Stukas" which were necessary for the air support of the attack. At the same time, on the … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Battle of La Heuniere Scenario#: 20525     Date: 8/20/1944     Location: La Heuniere, France At the end of the Normandy campaign, Allied troops ran to the Seine River to prevent the Germans from re-forming a front line on the river. On August 18th, when the first tanks of the 5th US Armored Division appeared … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Raid de la Luftwaffe Scenario#: 20537     Date: 6/23/1941     Location: Lutsk, Ukraine On June 22, 1941, Panzer Group 1 stormed into the northwestern corner of Ukraine. Although not the best country for tanks, it was in this countryside that Operation Barbarossa was launched. The German operational plans called for a rapid advance … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Hill 170 Scenario#: 20553     Date: 1/31/1945     Location: Kangaw, Burma During Operation Talon, a British offensive in the Arakan area of Burma, the 3rd Commando Brigade landed on January 22, 1945 on the banks of the Daingbon Chaung. Their objective was to capture the village of Kangaw and to cut … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Soviet KV-2 Tanks at Lutsk Scenario#: 20561     Date: 6/25/1941     Location: Lutsk, Russia During the night of June 24-25, additional elements from the Soviet 22nd Mechanized Corps, which included a number of Red Army KV-2 heavy tanks, took up positions alongside the remains of the 19th Tank Division in Lutsk. At dawn the … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan
Fort Capuzzo Scenario#: 20601     Date: 6/16/1941     Location: Capuzzo, Libya After heavy fighting on June 15 by the British 4th Armor and 22nd Guard Brigade, they succeeded in capturing Fort Capuzzo and also quickly established a defensive position. A strong counter-attack by the 8th Panzer division, attempted in the early … Memoir '44 — New Flight Plan