It was time for another World War II Wednesday and we decided it would be a good time to set up a standard FOW scenario. In this game, I opted for the…
Tag: Fallschirmjager
Game 5 – Market Garden Campaign, September 1944
Today’s post is another one of our ongoing Market Garden campaign battles. According to the brief, the Allies had two parachute rifle battalions of the 82nd Airborne Division defending the open polder…
Sea Lion, The Landings at Hawkinge (September 1940)
Background Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe) was Nazi Germany’s code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain…
Operation Hercules, Third Battle, (Mid 1942)
Background Operation Herkules was the German code-name given to a planned but never-executed Italo-German invasion of Malta during World War II (the Italian code-name was Operazione C3). Through combined air and sea…
Breakthough to the Trasimene Line (June 1944)
Background On Mark Clark’s U.S. Fifth Army front U.S. VI Corps was pushed up the coast along highway 1 and U.S. II Corps along highway 2 towards Viterbo. To their right British…
Battle for the Primosole Bridge, Operation Fustian (July 1943)
Background “Operation Fustian was an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 in the Second World War. The operation was carried out by Brigadier Gerald Lathbury’s…
Crete (1941)
“The Battle of Crete (Unternehmen Merkur) was fought during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941, when Nazi Germany began an…
Battle for the Ockenburg Airfield, (May 1940)
During May 10 to May 12, 1940, Ockenburg, a small Dutch auxiliary airfield near The Hague, was the scene of bitter fighting between German airborne forces and Dutch defenders during World War…
Attack on Ponte dei Malati Bridge
As part of our regular Flames of War Friday game, we chose to play a historically based scenario representing the British attack on Ponte dei Malati Bridge. Background: During July 13th, 1943,…