George Kelln
Elder Member
A restful long weekend spent finishing up the map for "The Steelworks" while I am waiting for my Battle for Wiltz counters to arrive. Thus far it consists of 5-scenarios played on the map; Scenarios 1-4 involve the British attempts to capture the Steelworks, and the Scenario 5 involving the Canadians attempt. Plans for a campaign game is up in the air at the moment, as my plate is full with at least 6 projects.
[Operation STACK]: 10/11 July 1944, Colombelles, France is an industrial town north east of Caen, east of Hérouville and the Orne River and defended by the Luftwaffe’s 16th Field Division. The entire area was dominated by the chimneys of the giant steel factory at Colombelles. The chimneys were the ideal observation posts over the battlefield for the Germans. General Bernard Law Montgomery decided on an operation to take these chimneys out.
[The Steelworks]: 17 July 1944, Colombelles, France, the Canadian part in Operation GOODWOOD, known as ATLANTIC, began at 07:45-hrs with the 8th Infantry Brigade making use of a rolling barrage to cover its initial advance. On the left flank, the Queen’s Own Rifles (QOR) of Canada reported little opposition initial, with its momentum only slowed by having to round up “shell-shocked” Germans from the Luftwaffe’s 16th Field Division, who had suffered under the earlier heavy aerial bombardment. Meanwhile, Le Régiment de la Chaudière (Chauds) on the right flank was stopped by fire from the woods and chateau north of Colombelles. By mid-morning, the QOR had managed to clear to the crossroads east of Colombelles, but heavy machine-gun and sniper fire from the steelworks had halted their advanced.
[Operation STACK]: 10/11 July 1944, Colombelles, France is an industrial town north east of Caen, east of Hérouville and the Orne River and defended by the Luftwaffe’s 16th Field Division. The entire area was dominated by the chimneys of the giant steel factory at Colombelles. The chimneys were the ideal observation posts over the battlefield for the Germans. General Bernard Law Montgomery decided on an operation to take these chimneys out.
[The Steelworks]: 17 July 1944, Colombelles, France, the Canadian part in Operation GOODWOOD, known as ATLANTIC, began at 07:45-hrs with the 8th Infantry Brigade making use of a rolling barrage to cover its initial advance. On the left flank, the Queen’s Own Rifles (QOR) of Canada reported little opposition initial, with its momentum only slowed by having to round up “shell-shocked” Germans from the Luftwaffe’s 16th Field Division, who had suffered under the earlier heavy aerial bombardment. Meanwhile, Le Régiment de la Chaudière (Chauds) on the right flank was stopped by fire from the woods and chateau north of Colombelles. By mid-morning, the QOR had managed to clear to the crossroads east of Colombelles, but heavy machine-gun and sniper fire from the steelworks had halted their advanced.
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