WF: Six days of Battle of Arracourt - Now in Scenario DB

[Crossroads]

Arracourt: The Second Day

Turns: 70
Complexity: 9
Size Modifier: 10
First Side: Allied

Alan R. Arvold
20 September, 1944

[30 Kilometers East of Nancy, France] [ALLIED/AXIS/H2H] [HIS] [GD]

After the defeat from the day before, the Germans settled down into a defensive stance in hopes of resuming the offensive when more reinforcements arrived.

The American 4th Armored Division on its part, figuring that the Germans had fled, was ready to resume the offensive, with an axis of advance to the northeast. In fact two task forces from CCA had already moved out by 9:00 AM. However they were called back when a German tank probe from the 113th Panzer Brigade managed to penetrate to within 1500 meters of Arracourt.

The tank probe was obliterated by fire from artillery, tanks, and tank destroyers, but the attack served to warn the Americans that there were still German forces in the area. Task Force Abrams moved out to southeast at about 3:00 PM and also immediately ran into elements of the German 111th Panzer Brigade, precipitating a rather fierce tank battle. After beating them off, Abrams perform a sweep through Moncourt, destroying a German infantry battalion in the process, and then bivouacked for the night around Lezey. The Germans on their part withdrew further east during the night.

[ALL: OPT AF] [2.02]