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GrinningDwarf -> Odd situations..... (12/21/2000 3:28:00 AM)
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which may or may not be tough to recreate in a game:
1. General James Gavin, in his book On to Berlin, talks about one regiment in the 82nd Airborne (commanded by Col. Tucker...I don't remember the reg. #), capturing a truckload of panzerfausts at Nijmegan during Market Garden. Tucker's regiment used them to good effect during the Battle of the Bulge. I think I could modify the paratroopers to actually carry panzerfausts instead of bazookas. Is this correct?
2. I'm currently reading Last Round Against Rommel: Battle of the Normandy Beachhead by Alexander McKee to get a more detailed British/Canadian view of the battle that I have read before. The book recounts a situation on D-Day where tankers of the Canadian 6th Armored Regiment feared running out of supply due to chaos of the invasion, so they "had stacked the floors of the tanks high with reserve ammunition." This made them especially...uh....inflammable. Any way I could build a scenario and assign a Sherman unit greater vulnerability for this reason? Just for fun, here's a little quote from the book (five out of nine Shermans had just been spectacularly brewed up before they had moved ten yards off the road to attack):
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In addition to his extra ammo, Gariepy was now only too well aware that he had 15 scrounged sticks of dynamite aboard, and at that moment, he saw, 30 yards ahead, the muzzle of an 88 mm dual-purpose gun rising up from a hidden emplacement to fire, the barrel pointing directly at him. "I gave rapid evasive orders to my driver and told my gunner to blast him. He fired two rounds: the second scored a direct hit. I reported to 'Sun Ray' that we were now going in to liquidate the crew. He advised me against this, but I moved up to the gun emplacement and mercilessly shot all the gun crew of fourteen men who were cowering in the trench."
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