One of the housekeeping chores prefacing the belated assault on Caen – finally scheduled to fall a month after D-Day, when it had initially been an objective – was the capture of the airfield at Carpiquet. Unfortunately, the Canadians’ old foe, the Hitler Youth Division, was waiting patiently in fortified positions.
Attacker: Canadian (Elements 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade)
Defender: German (SS) (Elements 12th SS Panzer Division)
Turns: 12 Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No
Carpiquet, France 1944-07-04
Unit Counts:
Squads: A:48.0 D:25.0
AFVs: A:5 Sherman V(a) x 2 Wolverine(a) x 2 Churchill Crocodile x 1
D:8 PzKpfw IVH x 2 PzKpfw VG x 3 StuG IIIG (L) x 1 StuG IIIG x 2
Guns: A:0 D:4 8.8cm PaK 43 x 1 2cm FlaK 36 x 2 5cm PaK 38 x 1 8cm GrW 34 x 1
