Hi all,
The next Sunday TOD will start on the 25th August.
Prelude to D-Day write up is below and will be a fixed frame structure in order to play out D-Day in a historic nature.
Scoring will be based on achieving objectives set by me for each frame.
Please post your preference for side.
I will post sides and frame CO next weekend.
Kronos, please post your side preference, expected numbers and also a Email for you nominated CO.
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It is early June 1944, Fighter and Bomber command have been tasked with softening up the French coast prior to the attack to start the invasion of Europe by Allied forces.
These attacks avoid the intended area of invasion Normandy. The Allies hope that the Axis forces will believe that the area of heaviest attack will be the point of attack for the Allies vast army that can be seen across the channel from Calais.
So good is the Allied counter intelligence work that the German high command is convinced that the attack will come at Calais and its surrounding deep water harbours.
June 6th 1944, Before dawn, the Allied Expeditionary Force of British, American, Canadian, Polish, and Free French troops begins Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of France. After an intensive naval and aerial bombardment, the first wave of 5 divisions (156,115 men) are landed at designated beaches in Normandy named Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah. This is preceded by the British 6th Airborne Division which lands near Caen and some 12,000 paratroopers of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions which are dropped on the Cotentin peninsula. These forces are supported by 1,213 warships, including 7 battleships and 23 cruisers, 1,600 auxiliary ships, and 4,126 landing craft, as well as massive British and American air support, which fly’s 14,674 sorties that day.
Opposing them in their bunkers and on the beaches are 5 German infantry divisions with about 50,000 men and 100 tanks and assault guns. Despite some heavy casualties, especially by the American’s on Omaha Beach, the German defenders, stunned and surprised by the massive onslaught, are progressively overwhelmed, and most of the allied objectives are reached and secured by nightfall.
Planes;
Allied
Spit 9
Spit 14 (limited)
Typhoon
F4U-1D
TBF
B-26
LVTA2
LVTA4
Axis
109G10
109G6
190F8
190A5
190D9 (limited)
JU-88
