Panzer Pioniers ETO (id:#64896)

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Kurovitsy, Soviet Union 1941-08-29 (7 others)

Overview:

As Army Group North advanced on Leningrad, the armored spearheads cut off numerous Red Army units. Many of them, spurred on by their commissars, were able to maintain a reasonable level of combat effectiveness, ambushing German supply columns and other supporting units. Such an ambush was sprung on the supply trains of the 8th Panzer Division. The survivors of this ambush were able to identify the location of the ambush and Company ‘C’ of the 59th Panzer Pionier Abteilung under Lt. Schneider was dispatched to eliminate the Soviet stragglers and secure the 8th Panzer Division’s supply line. The German troops rolled forward and spotted an anti-tank gun and machine-gun nest near the burning trucks from the supply column. Russian infantry with more anti-tank guns were spotted massing in the woods near the road. Schneider ordered his attached rocket half-tracks to fire a salvo into the woods while the tanks charged into the sea of Russian infantry.

Defender: Russian (Operational Group Luga)  

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