Red Gust ETO (id:#59512)

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Alt Langsow, Germany 1945-04-16 (23 others)

Overview:

The battle for the Seelow Heights on the outskirts of Berlin would be the battle upon which the fate of the capital would rest. On the 16th April at 0300 hours, a massive array of Soviet artillery opened fire along the front. Searchlights were switched on to signal the general advance and, as in the Revolution of 1917, troops advanced with morale-boosting banners flying. The Germans, expecting the onslaught, had abandoned their first line of defense, so that the main weight of the barrage fell on empty positions. Then the searchlights, which were blinding the Soviet troops more than lighting up German positions, were extinguished. Many units then waited until morning – after the murk and haze created by the heavy barrage had settled, to continue the attack. In the Letschin sector, in towns such as Alt Langsow, the Third and Fifth Shock Armies contested the main line of German resistance. . . .A Russian assault based on fourteen squads launches itself from Board 17 against ten defending German squads on Board 10 hunkered down in the hill village overlay from Action Pack #2. Each side as an option to pick one of three tank/panzer support forces.

Defender: German (Elements 8th Panzer Btn & 2nd PG Btn, Muncheberg Division)  

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