Target Wilhelmshafen

We have 11 hours to parachute in and execute a Hit & Run attack on Jerry

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Predawn drop was a Fubar. Team was scattered inside the Bockhorner Moor South of our target in Wilhelmshafen after our DC3 overshot the intended drop zone. 2 hours were lost as the squad of four made their ways to a secondary rally spot.

Odds of this Hit and Run succeeding dropped like a Roman candle.....

Once reunited, the team made good time backtracking towards Wilhelmshafen.

Until three hours into the mission when we ran into a regiment of front-line Germans out on a training exercise. We were ambushed.....

But the crops and half light gave the squad enough of a chance so that all could find cover.

A large firefight ensued, and the squad was dealing pain to a somewhat surprised enemy until reinforcements popped out of a farm field and dropped Pvt Bell.

Scooped up a trooper who had been separated from his unit.

The squad presses toward the objective under heavy attack

Tanks! A Panzer IV in the crops

Sergeant Starman sees an open hatch pulls the pin on his grenade and carries the attack home!

The Squad kept the target objective clear long enough for the other units to hit their targets, but the landing zone screw up cost us the time we needed for making it back to the beach and our sub for extraction.

A German officer hopes to make us pay but he is cut down quickly

One last Ambush to survive!

With Pvt Holt on a litter, We’ll attempt to link up with partisan forces operating West of us, then organize a ride back to England.

Sergeant Starman will be awarded The Silver Star for his incredible action on this mission. 

Killed at least 10 enemy, destroyed a half track, destroyed a Panzer IV, and cleared the objective.