Bloody St. Mick, Part 2

"Ok, listen up. The St Michaux road is just ahead. Our objective is to take the building in the southwest corner. We'll take that first. Once it 's secured we'll take the cottage on the east side and occupy the hill in the southeast corner. Let's move out."

The squad enters the board on the northwest corner.

 

 

 

 

We advance line abreast. Looking out for any Germans.

 

 

Bill and Kurt get ready to enter the first building.
The other squad members set up to provide cover fire if needed.

Bill kicks in the door! We catch 5 German paratroopers eating.
We immediately shoot down two paratroopers.
 

 

We kill another German and the other two surrender.
Izzy Cohen guards them.
Bill and Kurt search the next floors. 

The next floor there is nobody and the top floor there are a couple frightened civilians.



Outside the building a German patrol shows up!
It's a tough fight. The Germans have a lot of firepower.

We take positions at a window.  Little John and
Cpl Duggan fire back from outside. The German
patrol is finally eliminated. The German officer runs off
once his squad is put out of action.

 

 

We suffer casualties in the gun battle.

Little John and Cpl Duggan are severely wounded.

Our squad is down to 3 men.

 

 

Izzy remains at the first building guarding the two prisoners.
Bill and Kurt cross the bridge to the cottage.

 

 

Carefully checking out the cottage.

 

 

 

The cottage turns up empty. Bill occupies the cottage.
Kurt occupies the hill across the way.
Mission accomplished.

The rest of our unit came down the St. Michaux road a few hours later.  They also picked up our wounded.

In the After Action Report to the CO, I indicated that it was not worth taking the two prisoners. We could have used the extra gun that was guarding the prisoners.  Hopefully they will provide some information.

I see our replacements are arriving now.