Day Seven AAR can be found here:
https://onesidedminiaturewargamingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2025/04/stolberg-corridor-day-seven.html
This session came down to bloody fighting for Stolberg. The US grimly hanging on and the Germans throwing themselves into the fray in repeated, desperate attacks. Would they pay off? Would the US hold Stolberg which had been seized with such optimism?
20 September 1944 was to prove to be the last day of this campaign.
As soon as it's daylight, elements of the German 12th Infantry Division attack.
Weakened, but not deterred, they attack again.
Regroup and attack, this time with 9th Panzer joining the assault.
It's a battle of attrition with both sides sustaining losses.
The US refuse to break, but pressure is being applied to their right flank
(very top left-hand corner of the image)
The attacks continue and the US forces defending Stolberg are starting to thin out.
The German 12th Infantry Division makes a massive demonstration all along the US flank.
Follow-up attacks on Stolberg take more of the city's blocks.
The Germans now hold over half.
The US make a desperate surprise counterattack.
But it fails
The situation at the end of the day.
The situation morning 21 September, the US forces have pulled back,
holding Stolberg has become untenable.
A stirring operation!
ReplyDeleteYes, it produced a good set of games. The adaption worked well, but I need to write up my conclusions.
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