Lost Highway

The race to be the first to enter Rome was on. Equally urgent was the German race to evacuate the Eternal City. Hitler's order of an open city was not extended to the approaches to Rome where small groups of Fallschirmjagers, landsers, and panzers were cobbled together in …

1944-06-05

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The race to be the first to enter Rome was on. Equally urgent was the German race to evacuate the Eternal City. Hitler's order of an open city was not extended to the approaches to Rome where small groups of Fallschirmjagers, landsers, and panzers were cobbled together in an attempt to slow the Allied advance long enough to allow the Germans in Rome to evacuate northward. Even today, it is hard to determine exactly which Allied unit was the first to enter Rome, but one such claim goes to elements of Task Force Howze, comprised of a company of the 88th Division's reconnaissance battalion and the 1st Special Service Force.

Rome, Italy

Operation Achse, originally called Operation Alaric, was the codename for the German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies on 3 September 1943. The Germans disarmed over a million Italian troops within a matter of days, annihilating the Italian military and state. Several German divisions had entered Italy after the fall of Benito Mussolini in July 1943, while Italy was officially still an ally of Germany, despite the protests of the new Italian government under Pietro Badoglio. The Armistice of Cassibile was made public on 8 September. German forces moved rapidly to take over the Italian zones of occupation in the Balkans and southern France, and to disarm Italian forces in Italy.

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Scenario Type = Standard