Researching Battle of Münster, Apr 1945

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Looking at a scenario design for the Battle of Münster involving elements of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade (Churchill and Achilles AFVs). Any recommendations for references, particularly for the German OB would be helpful. Challenge will be to build something so it's not just another city fight. Didn't see anything in the ASL master scenario list that already covered the action.
 

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Münster is located in Northrhine-Westfalia, so the following website could be of use to you (it is in German, but meddling around might yet yield results:

https://www.tim-online.nrw.de/tim-online/initParams.do;jsessionid=2446A7A0D7C0EABE4DF76C20A1DD32C8

See the following post to have a look what you can do with it:
http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/noreaster-xxi-2017-boxborough-ma.128685/#post-1850573

Aerial photographs:
https://www.luftbilder.geoportal.ruhr/

See the following posts for examples:
http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/noreaster-xxi-2017-boxborough-ma.128685/#post-1850646

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Looking at a scenario design for the Battle of Münster involving elements of the US 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Guards Tank Brigade (Churchill and Achilles AFVs). Any recommendations for references, particularly for the German OB would be helpful. Challenge will be to build something so it's not just another city fight. Didn't see anything in the ASL master scenario list that already covered the action.
For OB's, try Googling Nafziger and Niehorster. Hopefully I have that spelled correctly. They are the two preeminent OB Gurus out there and their work is pretty prolific.
 
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