Beachhead at Ozereyka Bay


In the Ozereyka Valley, February 4th, 1943: In an effort to cutoff the 7th Army's retreat to the Laman
Peninsula, Stalin developed a plan to use the combined efforts of a land and seaborne operation. The
Black Sea Fleet would land a force composed of army and naval troops in the German's rear. This force
will smash the coastal defenses at a favorable point and establish a beachhead. Later, this beachhead
would be enlarged by follow-up units in a drive toward Volchyi Vorota and eventually link up with the
47th Army. The landing point chosen was the area around Ozereyka Bay. After heavy naval bombardment, the
first Russian assault waves landed on the beach in front of Rumanian coastal defense units and formed up for the push toward the town of Glebovka, their first inland objective.

Game Length: 11 turns

For the Russians to win they need to capture the two artillery guns on the hill and exit 5 squads.
For the Germans to win they must prevent the capture of the artillery pieces and 5 Russian squads 	from exiting.

Russians: Squads, HMG, MMG's, LMG's MTR's
Germans: Squads, MMG's, LMG's, ART, Radio

Boards: #2, #3, #4, #5

Aftermath: With support from their mortar teams and a few light tanks that had made it ashore, the Russian
assault parties broke through the forward Rumanian Battalion. But the loses suffered in taking the
position had been too great. The Russian troops that reached the town of Glebovka ammounted to little
more than a platoon. Together with the remaining Rumanian units, the German dislodged the Russians from the Glebovka and pushed them all the way back to the beaches. The defeat like the one suffered by the Western Allies five months earlier at Dieppe, had been disastrous.


Source: ASL Scenario 106, Beachhead at Ozereyka Bay
 