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Posted on Thu May 20, 2010 9:02 am by webmaster
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by papa_whisky on Thu May 20, 2010 6:17 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Looks German to me, other than that ...no idea |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Thu May 20, 2010 11:27 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | I'd guess this is is someone's HQ but im not that familiar wit these structure's. Judging from the map colors i'd say this is somewhere in the vicinity of saint Lo not sure tough... still in the dark
Cheers Buck |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Fri May 21, 2010 11:05 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Yeah! Finally, I found a place that nobody knows!! .... at least, until now...
Keep looking for because I think it's not difficult. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by pagskier on Mon May 31, 2010 4:02 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | | it's definetly a religious place |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Mon May 31, 2010 9:44 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Little Hint.
Yes, this is a religious French place, but What happened in this area in 1944? |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:19 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | Period of time will be the next hint, but now I,ll tell you that this village is in North-West of France, yes, in Normandy. (Basse-Normandie). And South-west Caen.
Great hint, isn´t? |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:52 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Big hint, gays!
This operation began on August 6, 1944.
Bye. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by pagskier on Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:05 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | I sent you a PM about how Buck foud it out
and gave me tips about the church of
******* |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Sapper_D on Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:15 am
(User Info | Send a Message) | | L'Abbaye Blanche, Mortain, France. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:21 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Congratulations!! It was Abbaye Blanche, near Mortain centre.
In the early morning hours of 7 August 1944, the Germans launched a counterattack against Allied forces in Normandy. American forces in the area were surprised but in a series of small unit actions held their ground, thwarting German plans. This roadblock, near Abbaye-Blanche, was north of Mortain, the initial German objective. Although the Germans succeeded in capturing the town, after almost a week of close combat American forces regained Mortain on 12 August. According to the artist, this roadblock held its ground during that period and destroyed more than twenty-five German vehicles.
Congratulations to all who resolved the challenge. But... Terrain Challenge #31 solved by Buck, of course. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #31 (Solved by Sapper_D) (Score: 1)
by Lestayo10 on Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:50 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | The next night, our platoon leader, Lt. Tom Andrews, led us to Abbaye Blanche where we were stationed as lookout on the hill overlooking the train station. That night an American jeep came up the hill from the East. My BAR man, Harlin Grinder opened up on them killing the driver and an officer with him. He became unnerved, thinking at the time they were American GIs. I crawled up to the jeep under fire and discovered
that they were two SS soldiers, removed their medals as proof to confirm to him they were Germans. The next day, a train backed into the station and on the flat cars were several thousand German soldiers. The English Typhoons had a field day picking them off with with machine guns and rocket fire from their planes. After seeing how exposed we were in front of our anti-tank gun, we were pulled back to an apple orchard. The anti-tank gun manned by Sgt. Miller J. Rhyne and John Hanratty was located in an ambush location beside a French house where four roads came together. The 17 of us from F. Co. were the defense for this gun.
http://www.petersburgexpress.com/Mortain.html
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