Nijmegen Historical Campaign - AAR

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Day 5 05:01

Because of this the 2nd Welsh Guards, having secured the Weurt and Neerbosch bridges heads into Nijmegen.

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Day 5 05:01

We haven't quite been able to close them down but there is a day's fighting left......

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Day 5 14:26

Eleven hours left to try and inflict as much damage as possible......

The Notts Yeomanry and the 13/18 Hussars are to advance into Kranenburg whilst the 2nd Guards sets up an "anvil". The Grenadier Guards are to advance north in the direction of Zyfflieh but hold a north south line on the road. At the same time the 8th Armoured which has received a pounding at the hands of a combat strength 4 unit (with only eight armoured cars!?!? Yeah, right) dug in just to the east of Zyfflieh is to repeat it's attempts to gain Zyfflieh.

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Day 5 23:00

And so it ends.

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Here is the final situation. Given another day I would have wiped out the German forces in the polder at the east of the map. Equally, I was completely oblivious to the progress (or infact existence) of KG Hermann coming up the centre. I like to think that the Irish Guards would have come to the rescue .

That was great fun but bloody hard work. I need a beer. And the 2nd 505th deserve a bunch of medals and a month on R&R - I might do better next time, I very much doubt that they will.


Patrick

Edit - PS. I hate to imagine what might have happened if I'd been on painfully realistic order delay....