ASL11 DEFIANCE ON HILL 30 6/4 - Steel Panthers: World War 2

ASL11 DEFIANCE ON HILL 30 6/44*
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Date: 8 June, 1944*
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Battle Type: German assault VS. US defense.*
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Turns: 18*
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Plays best as pbem, then Germany vs. AI*
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Design: keif149*
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Near Pont L’Abbe, France*
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This scenario is dedicated to Edward L. Montgomery. Assigned to the Medical Detachment of the 508th Parachute Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. Edward jumped into Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. For his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Edward also participated in Operation Market Garden and was in the Battle Of The Bulge.
He also served in Korea. Then joining the Special Forces and serving in Vietnam. He retired from active duty with the rank of Command Sergeant Major. He continued to serve his country by working for the CIA.*
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A bad drop prevented the 508th Parachute Regiment from securing any of its objectives along the Douve River. The best effort was made by an ad hoc group of roughly two companies under Lt. Colonel Shanley whose drive toward the bridge at Pont L'Abbe was stopped cold by a battalion of the 1057th Grenadier Regiment. Thus rebuffed, the
paratroopers fell back to the high ground overlooking the Chef-Du-Pont crossing where they were surrounded and constantly harassed for the next two days. The key element of the position was a standing patrol in a farm and road junction at the bottom of the hill, blocking the road from the west to the bridge. At dawn on June 8th the Germans made their most determined effort to take it.*
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Notes:*
This scenarios is based loosely on the ASL version. It has not been historically fact checked or altered for pbem balance. It was merely my intention to bring it to the SP format.*
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Aftermath:*
The German attack made great progress and was about to wrest control of the crossroads from the standing patrol, until a platoon led by Shanley himself came down the hill to take the enemy in the flank. Hill 30 remained cut off until the 10th when the rest of the 508th crossed the Merderet at La Fier and made contact with Shanley on his north flank. Despite not seizing their D-Day objectives, Shanley’s defiant stand on Hill 30 helped enable the overall American airborne effort to succeed.
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