The Argenta Gap - The Matrix Games version of West Front

Shortly after first light on the 11th, the 56th Division launched a small amphibious attack on the southwest shore of the Valli di Comacchio long the german Gengis Khan line. The 169th Brigade with the 40th Commando attached landed in Menate area using Buffaloes/Fantails. The land lying under the water in this area was found to be firmer than had been the case in the previous attempt to use Buffaloes farther south in the Vaffi di Comacchio. During the day a beachhead was established extending from Menate through Longastrino to Casa Manzine. Resistance was mainly from battalions of the 42nd Jaeger Division and an ad hoc battalion of odds and ends from the Argenta area. During the night the beachhead forces linked up with elements of the 167th Brigade that had been pushing west along the Reno River against heavy opposition. Part of the mobile 29th Panzer Grenadier Division, had been brought back from north of the Po River and developed to defence the Bando bridge. on the 12th, the 42nd Jaeger Division began to pull back into the Argenta Gap, offering stubborn resistance in its withdrawal, especially at Filo, while troops of the same division also engaged in heavy fighting for the di Bando bridge near which the 24th Guards Brigade landed on the 13th . The successful penetration of the Eighth Army through the Argenta Gap, from the south with the 78th Infantry division and from the east with the 56th Infantry division, forced the enemy to start a general withdrawal from the Bologna area on the evening of the 20th. The battle in the Argenta Gap to destroy surviving german enemy forces before they escaped to the Po River was won.