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Title
Daredevil Tankers
Description
Arriving in Belgium without their tanks, the men of the 740th Tank Battalion scraped together what armor they could at a depot enroute to the front. The men cobbled together some bastard tanks and rushed forward to meet Kampfgruppe Peiper. …
Source
Publisher
Date
1944-12-19
Scenario#
G10
Scenario Description
Arriving in Belgium without their tanks, the men of the 740th Tank Battalion scraped together what armor they could at a depot enroute to the front. The men cobbled together some bastard tanks and rushed forward to meet Kampfgruppe Peiper. Someone had to stop the spearhead of the 1st SS Panzer Division and these tankers would be the cork in the bottle. When this oddball collection of armor hits open ground, they find the enemy panzers and the shells start flying.
Location
Stoumont, Belgium
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper, a German Waffen-SS unit led by Joachim Peiper and part of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, at Baugnez crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. Eighty-four American prisoners of war were massacred by their German captors. The prisoners were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns; those still alive were killed by close-range shots to the head.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Malmedy massacre
Combatants
German
American

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