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Operation Market Garden. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion ...
World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (aka. The Heat of War) (2006) Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt (2006) Battlestrike: Force of Resistance (aka. Mortyr 3) (2007) Operation Thunderstorm (aka. Mortyr: Operation Thunderstorm) (2008) Royal Marines Commando (2008) Battlestrike: Shadow of Stalingrad (2009)
The Siege of Bastogne ( French pronunciation: [bas.tɔɲ] ⓘ) was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior ...
Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 20th Armored Division. The 20th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that fought in World War II. It was activated on 15 March 1943 at Camp Campbell in Kentucky. The division had no official name although it did associate itself with the nickname "Armoraiders" while in training at ...
The Battle of Aachen was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October 1944. [4] [5] The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr Basin.
The Battle of Arracourt took place between U.S. and German armoured forces near the town of Arracourt, Lorraine, France between 18 and 29 September 1944, during the Lorraine Campaign of World War II. As part of a counteroffensive against recent U.S. advances in France, the German 5th Panzer Army had as its objective the recapture of Lunéville ...
Panzer '44 is a two-player board wargame where one player controls German forces, and the other Allied forces. With rules for plotted fire, and different types of artillery fire, including direct fire, defensive opportunity fire, and indirect fire, all of which use various types of ammunition, as well as close air support, minefields and ...
In 1987, 4–41st Infantry returned to Fort Hood, Texas and was replaced by 3–66th Armor (Burt's Knights, named for Captain James M. Burt who was awarded the Medal of Honor as a company commander in the 66th Armored Regiment in the Battle of Aachen during World War II). Now an armor-heavy brigade, 2nd Armored Division (Forward) fielded 116 M ...