by GeneralHowitzer | May 8, 2025 | 1944, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Strategic
Poterie Ridge July 4th, 1944—while folks back home were waving flags and lighting fireworks, the boys of the 82nd Airborne were earning every damn star on that flag with blood and grit in the fields of Normandy. The 325th Glider Infantry and 508th Parachute Infantry,...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 7, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Tactical, Theater: Western
Escouves Forest August 1944—Écouves Forest. Thick woods, rough country, and Germans with their backs to the wall. Perfect place for a fight. After we busted out of Normandy, the Krauts tried to make a stand in that damned forest north of Alençon, thinking trees and...
by GeneralHowitzer | May 6, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Closing the Falaise Gap August 1944—Falaise. The trap was nearly shut, and the Germans knew it. Hell, they could smell it. By the 18th, the Canadians had taken Trun and St. Lambert, putting the lid on the Falaise Pocket. But it wasn’t locked down yet—hell no. The line...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Closing the Gap The Battle of Closing the Gap near Falaise from August 19–22, 1944, marked the final phase of the Falaise Pocket, where British, Canadian, Polish, and American forces worked to encircle and destroy retreating German units in Normandy. Fighting was...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 29, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: Netherlands, Overlord, Overlord Game, Scenario, Strategic, Theater: Western
Operation Market Garden (Overlord Map) Op-Market-Garden_title Op-Market-Garden_Right2 Op-Market-Garden_Right1 Op-Market-Garden_Left2 Op-Market-Garden_Left1 Op-Market-Garden_center2 Op-Market-Garden_center1 Operation Market Garden, fought in September 1944, was a major...
by GeneralHowitzer | Apr 28, 2025 | 1944, Armor, Artillery, Countryside, Infantry, Location: France, Medal Objectives, Memoir 44, Scenario, Special Weapons, Tactical
Saint-Martin and Bull Bridge After the Allied breakout from Normandy (Operation Cobra, late July 1944), U.S. forces rapidly advanced across northern France. As they pursued retreating German forces, small but fierce battles flared up at key defensive points. Battle...
