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[Plain Ian]

509th Parachute Battalion?



I did a quick google of this unit.

December 1944: The 509th was attached to the 101st Airborne Division in time for the Battle of the Bulge. In another defensive mission, against incredible odds, the 509th held out from 22 to 30 December at Sadzot, Belgium, against two Panzer Grenadier Battalions, both elite German mechanized infantry units, and earned the battalion its second Presidential Unit Citation.
The battalion entered the battle at full strength (about 750 men) but when the unit was pulled from the action in the end of January, only 48 enlisted men and 7 officers were still actively fighting. At this time the unit was disbanded and the men used as replacements for other airborne division.

In the game the unit is indeed a 750 man A morale unit but its an independent Corps unit. I guess I could have sent it south to join the 101st but Werbomont looked to be a better use for it. No 2nd Panzer for them but the 116th Panzer in my game. Sadzot by the way is actually just to the left of grandmenil if you look at the map above, so the unit isn't that far away from where it historically fought in 1944?

Added comment: If the 509th was at Sadzot how could it be attached to the 101st besieged in Bastogne? It must have been attached to the 82nd when it was fighting at Sadzot?