H&L Carentan town, third Scenario of Carentan

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H&L Carentan town, third Scenario of Carentan.

This is the attack of the paratroopers of the 101st division to free the town of Carentan, led by the Easy company of Lieutenant Winters.

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Near Carentan, a town of about four thousand people, Easy Company was hunkered down, prepping for a final assault to capture it. The Easy Company were sent to the west side of Carentan.
The town lay astride the main road running to Cherbourg at the tip of the Cotentin Peninsula. The Germans wanted to keep the town; the US needed it to bridge incoming troops from Omaha Beach and Utah Beach, north and south. The US army were camped on a roadway leading to the Douve River estuary.

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Great work, cant wait for this one. Thanks for putting these scenarios together.

Delta07D

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Thank you very much, Delta07d

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On June 12, on the edge of Carentan, the 506th’s 2nd Battalion, of which the Easy Company was part, was walking down a road, readying for all-important attack. It was dawn. F Company was on his left flank, D Company in reserve. Easy Company approaches the town of Carentan.
Winters checks it, and tells Welsh to lead first Platoon, while he come up with 2nd and 3rd Platoons. After taking one last look, he checks his watch, turns up to Welsh, and says "Go!." Welsh then gets up with a couple of men and runs to the town. Suddenly, a German MG opens up on them. Two men are go down from the Machine gun burst, and the rest of the men hide in the ditches as more Machine guns fire at them.

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Suddenly, all hell broke loose. One or two German troopers came out in the middle of the intersection, pouring machine-gun fire up and down the road. Mortar fire joined the barrage.
“Move out!” Winters yelled.
Nobody moved, as if pinned in the ditches.
"Move out!’ Let’s go!”
Still, nobody went.
Buck Compton and Winters get the men up out of the ditches. More men are killed in the charge.
When someone tossed a grenade to take care of the machine-gun nest, we had the intersection under control. The Germans withdrew.

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Powers gets behind a chicken pen, and watches as a man is killed by a sniper. Lipton tries to lead Guarnere, Perconte, and a couple others against a gun. One man tries to tell Lipton the position of another gun, before a sniper hits him. Tipper and Liebgott destroy another gun with a bazooka. A German comes out, but Liebgott fatally shoots him with his pistol. Hoobler and Luz break into a building, but find only a family hiding. Lipton runs up a railing, and throws a grenade into an apartment.

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Knowing paratroopers positions, suddenly, they rained Mortar and Artillery fire come down on the men. Guys were going down right and left. Winters took a hit in the lower leg. They sustain many casualties, as Lipton yells at the men to get out of the streets. Blithe runs, but combat begins to wear down on him, and he slumps over in an alley with a blank stare on his face. One mans leg is blown to pieces by a Mortar. Lipton is still out in the open yelling for the men to move, when a Flak shell explodes under him, and launches him into a building. Talbert goes to help Lipton, who is bleeding in the face and hand from shrapnel. He then notices blood on Liptons groin. He slits open Lipton fly, takes a look, and says, "You're okay Lip. Everythings right where it should be."

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Liebgott and Tipper go to clear out a building. Tipper goes out back. He stops in front of a closet outside. "Hello? Anyone there?" He then fires his M1 Rifle at it three times. As he runs out of the building, an Artillery shell explodes in front of him. Tipper survives, and slowly walks out. Liebgott comes over, and is face to face with a bloodied and mangled Tipper, with only half of his face covered in blood, and his legs torn. Liebgott tries to comfort him, as he begins carrying Tipper out.

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Amid moans of wounded soldiers and occasional shots, Malarkey heard the oddest thing: “Hail Mary, mother of Jesus, full of grace . . .” Over and over. Not the panicked voice of a wounded soldier, but the stoic, almost calm voice of someone else. “Hail Mary, mother of Jesus, full of grace . . .” Malarkey glanced up and there was Father John Maloney, holding a small cross in his hands and walking down the center of the road, administering last rites to our dying. Never seen anything like it, a priest administering last rites with bullets bouncing around his feet. Takes a hell of a lot of conviction, and faith, for a man to do that. "Hey Malark, you see what I'm seeing'?" says Muck. "Crazy fools, we Irish."
Later, he would be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his courage under fire.

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As the Germans retreat, Gorden and his assistant gunner fire at them from a building with their Machine Gun. Winters meets a soldier on a horse, who's bringing in reinforcements to drive the rest of the Germans out of town. Winters walks over to Colonel Strayer, Lt. Nixon, and the rest of Battalion staff. Strayer asks if it’s safe. Winter says yes. As they leave, a Sniper fires at Winters, and a piece of it ricochets into his leg. Winters grunts in pain, as he leans on a wall.

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Easy Company medic, Eugene Roe, was up to his elbows in blood, patching soldiers right and left. By now, he was already a seasoned veteran with the wounded, able to patch and diagnose in a quiet, methodical way.
“That’s a Purple Heart wound, Malark,” he calmly said, hardly looking up from wrapping a bandage around the chest of some soldier naked from the waist up. Malarkey looked around the room. The waiting line was long and full of soldiers blooders.
It had been a fast and furious attack. Easy Company had ten casualties in the June 12 attack on Carentan.
After the battle, Winters came across a German soldier who was terribly wounded and crying for help. He asked to Malarkey to put the man out of his misery. Malarkey obeyed the order.

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“Carentan town”, the third scenario for the historical module Carentan of Heroes and Leaders mod, is already available at the "threah":

tm.asp?m=4374224#

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American Eagles Grand Chemin (old Carentan town) expantion scenario is coming

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American Eagles Grand Chemin (old Carentan town) expantion scenario is American Eagles Sainte Marie du Mont scenario