Primosole Bridge making of

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or how to realize the best scenario of the world.[:D]

1-Find a good story in history.

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2-Searching, Finding ,Reading

https://books.google.fr/books?id=dSsVDA ... ny&f=false

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3-Searching, Finding ,Reading again


https://www.casematepublishing.co.uk/bl ... le-bridge/

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4- You need a map.

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5- you need a OOB.

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6-For the rest, we'll see later, I'm hungry![:D]

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Indeed!
Ponder.
Search, Find, Read.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Repeat.
Map. OOB.
Snack.

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When full of food snacks... an option for DD's design contest.

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7-Establish a chronology.

Arrows;

1-The battlerapidly split into two fights as a small group of British seized the bridge from the startledItalian defenders while others battled out for the high ground south of the bridge (hills
designated as Johnny 1, 2 and 3).

2-Unknown to the attackers, their German counterparts, paratroopers of the 1st Machinegun
Battalion of the 1st Fallschirmjäger Division were dug in about 2000 meters south of the
bridge. A number of the British paratroops were dropped near these German positions and
at first the defenders mistook them for expected fallshirmjäger reinforcements.

3-After discovering this morning that the bridge was in enemy hands, you
have returned to Catania to hastily assemble a reaction force in order to retake the bridge.
Made up of the only available local reserves at Catania – a 1st Parachute Division signal
company and an ad hoc collection of administrative troops from Catania airfield – your
kampfgruppe is bolstered by an AA battery, a handful of antitank guns and a selfpropelled
gun. As your supporting artillery begins shelling enemy positions, you prepare
to attack the Red Devils dug in around the north side of Primosole Bridge. They must be
dislodged before the main British force arrives.

4-44th RTR and advance elements of 6 DLI arrive from the south within 5” of Lentini Road.

5-Later that night, Pearson led the DLI over a fording point upstream and allowed the DLI to move towards the bridge and assault it at first light, finally capturing it after a hard day’s fighting.