Produktbeschreibung
The Battle For Omaha Beach
D-DAY, 6 JUNE 1944
By the beginning of June 1944, the beaches of the tranquil French coast of Normandy had been transformed by the occupying German army into something not nearly so picturesque. A dozen bunker complexes dotted the high bluffs overlooking the five kilometre-long crescent of sand between Vierville-sur-Mer and Colleville-sur-Mer, littered with obstacles designed to punch holes in any landing craft willing to brave them.
At each end, forbidding cliffs lined the waters edge, making an assault there impossible.
Four draws sliced through the forbidding bluffs. These were the only way off the beach for vehicles, and the most heavily fortified points. The most important of the draws were the two to the east called D1 and D3 by the Allies, as both had roads winding up from the beach heading inland.
The beach the Allies codenamed Omaha had become the outer wall of Hitler's Fortress Europe.
INSIDE YOU WILL FIND:
- History of the battle for Omaha beach.
- History and complete organisation of the German 352. Infanteriedivision
- Options to field a Festungskompanie from 726. Grenadierregiment,
Kampfgruppe Meyer and 1352. Stug Abteilung.
- Rules for fielding beach defences as part of your Festungskompanie.
- History and complete organisation of the US 1st "Big Red One" and
US 29th "Blue and Grey" Infantry Divisions.
- History and complete organisation of the US Rangers at Point du Hoc.
- Exploits of General Norman "Dutch" Cota, Assistant Divisional Commander
of the 29th Infantry Division.
- Two new scenarios; The battle for easy Green and Point du Hoc. |
