Battle of Carentan Campaign.Mission Albany

DATE: 09/03/2025
TIME (GMT): 19:00
ERA: WW2
MAP(S): Carentan
TYPE: COOP
TEAMSPEAK: ts1.biaarma.com
GAME: Arma 3
EVENT: Official
AUTHOR(S): Aris and Lord for Brothers in Arms
SLOTS: 64 / 74

MEDICS SETTINGS: Advanced
PREVENT INSTANT DEATH: Yes
LIVES: 3
DAMAGE RESISTANCE: 5
RESPAWN WAY: Respawn On Team
ENEMY DIFFICULTY: Medium
DOWNLOAD MODPACK: WW2 Version 40 Modpack
RATING:

The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy. The battle took place from 10 to 14 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of CarentanFrance.

The objective of the attacking American forces was consolidation of the U.S. beachheads (Utah Beach and Omaha Beach) and establishment of a continuous defensive line against expected German counterattacks. The defending German force attempted to hold the town long enough to allow reinforcements en route from the south to arrive, prevent or delay the merging of the lodgments, and keep the U.S. First Army from launching an attack towards Lessay-Périers that would cut off the Cotentin Peninsula.

Carentan was defended by two battalions of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Parachute Regiment) of the 2nd Fallschirmjager-Division. The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division, ordered to reinforce Carentan, was delayed by transport shortages and attacks by Alliedaircraft. The attacking 101st Airborne Division, landed by parachute on 6 June as part of the American airborne landings in Normandy, was ordered to seize control of Carentan.

In the ensuing battle, the 101st forced passage across the causeway into Carentan on 10 and 11 June. A lack of ammunition forced the German forces to withdraw on 12 June. The 17th SS PzG Division counter-attacked the 101st Airborne on 13 June. Initially successful, its attack was thrown back by Combat Command A (CCA) of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division.

Carentan was defended by two battalions of Fallschirmjager-Regiment 6 of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger-Division, commanded by OberstFriedrich von der Heydte, and remnants of 91 Air Landing Division s Grenadier-Regiment 1058. Both had escaped from nearby Saint Come-du-Mont on 8 June when the village was captured by the 101st Airborne Division. II./FJR6 and III./FJR6 (2nd and 3rd Battalions, 6th Parachute Regiment) were still intact as fighting formations, but III./GR1058 had been nearly destroyed in three days of combat and was no longer effective as a unit.

The German LXXXIV Corps (84.Korps) reinforced the 6th Parachute Regiment (FJR6) with survivors of Grenadier-Regiment 914 (German 352nd Infantry Division) following its 9 June defeat at IsignyArmy Group B commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered von der Heydte to defend the town to the last man.

The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division stationed at Thouars, ostensibly a mechanized infantry division of the OKW Mobile Reserve but without tanks or adequate transport, was ordered on 7 June to move to Normandy following the Allied landings. However it was delayed by shortages of trucks and attacks by Allied aircraft that destroyed bridges over the Loire River and interdicted rail movements. Advance elements reached Angers on 9 June and Saint-Lo on 10 June, by which time Rommel s main concern was in preventing an attack westward from Carentan to cut off the Cotentin. The 38th Panzergrenadier Regiment formed a mobile battle group to resist V Corps units south of Isigny, and the 37th PzG-Rgt was sent to Carentan.

The 101st Airborne Division consolidated its forces in Normandy on 9 June. Its three parachute regiments (501st502nd, and 506th PIRs) had been badly scattered during their air drops, losing a significant number of men killed and missing as a result, and had suffered further casualties in taking Saint Come-du-Mont.Its 327th Glider Infantry Regiment had landed largely at Utah Beach on D+1 (7 June) and except for its third battalion (the attached 1st Battalion, 401st GIR), had yet to engage in serious combat. Several units of the 327 did land by ship on D-Day. The 327 HQ Co Anti-Tank Platoon glided into France.

The 2nd Armored Division, part of the U.S. V Corps, had advanced off Omaha Beach to support the drive of the 175th Infantry Regiment (29th Division) to Isigny. Its Combat Command A (CCA), consisting of M4 Sherman tanks of the 2nd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment and mechanized infantry of the 3rd Battalion, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, was available as an armored force reserve for the 101st Airborne.

On 9 June the 101st finished consolidating, with the 502nd PIR guarding the right flank along the upper Douve River, the 506th PIR deployed across the Carentan highway, and the 327th GIR on the left in positions along the Douve River opposite Brévands.The 501st PIR was the division s reserve and guarding the left flank east of the 327.

Patrols and aerial reconnaissance of Carentan indicated that the town might be lightly defended, and a plan to capture the city by a double envelopment was contrived, using the 502nd PIR on the right and the 327th GIR on the left, scheduled to jump off just after midnight 10 June.The 502 mission was to force the bridges and capture high ground southwest of the town along the Périers highway (Hill 30) to block withdrawal. The 327th was to cross the Douve at Brévands, circle a mile to the east, and come in on the road west from Isigny to take the town.

In this campaign we will follow the footsteps of the US 101st Airborne Division,502nd PIR ,H Company during the days from June 6 (landing in Normandy) to June 14, 1944 with the fall of the Town of Carentan.

Mission Albany was a parachute combat assault at night by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, part of the American airborne landings in Normandy during World War II five hours ahead of the D-Day landings, 6,928 paratroopers jumped from 443 C-47 Skytrain troop-carrier planes into the southeast corner of France s Cotentin Peninsula.

We will be the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment PIR, the H Company, which arrived in Normandy with Gliders in the 4th wave in the morning hours of June 6, 1944.

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US 101st Airborne Division 506th Infantry Regiment

502th PIR- H Company HQ

Captain Company Commander
Doctor
Company Staff Sergeant
Miletic
Company Doctor
Usagi
Company Engineer
Feather

Mortar Platoon(M 81)

Lieutenant Platoon Commander
Dr. Lexus
Mortar Gunner
Flappy
Mortar Assistant Gunner
Rio.
Mortar Ammobearer
Zex

1st Platoon HQ

Lieutenant Platoon Commander
Sclembi
Platoon Medic
Chewie
Platoon Engineer
jason
Platoon Marksman
Anctus

Alpha Squad

Sergeant Squad Leader
Bobi
Corporal Team Leader
Nanard
Medic
Thasylea
Machine Gunner
Punisher
Autorifleman BAR
Johnny
Grenadier
Lord
Ammobearer
Exillius
Rifleman Bazooka
Chak
Saboteur
Pavlovic
Rifleman
Szarik
Rifleman
Aris
Rifleman
Festus

Bravo Squad

Sergeant Squad Leader
Abramusas
Corporal Team Leader
UniPlay
Medic
Louis_Bolgarov
Machine Gunner
Dimi
Autorifleman BAR
Zero
Grenadier
GameKnighted
Ammobearer
Viper
Rifleman Bazooka
John
Saboteur
Kaczomen
Rifleman
Rifleman
Bugs Bunny
Rifleman
Joe

2nd Platoon HQ

Lieutenant Platoon Commander
W.Jarvis
Platoon Medic
YourDoctor
Platoon Engineer
Tole
Platoon Marksman
Luanmh

Charlie Squad

Sergeant Squad Leader
Cobe
Corporal Team Leader
Psion
Medic
Burger
Machine Gunner
Zvuk
Autorifleman BAR
Gillette
Grenadier
Arin
Ammobearer
Mo
Rifleman Bazooka
fresh ziomal
Saboteur
Aleksa
Rifleman
RasaDeDam
Rifleman
Rad
Rifleman
Blackshadow

Delta Squad ( CE )

Sergeant Squad Leader
Corporal Team Leader
Medic
Machine Gunner
Autorifleman BAR
Grenadier
Ammobearer
Spud
Rifleman Bazooka
Heinrich
Saboteur
Yotza
Rifleman
Rifleman
NearchosCretan
Rifleman
Seedorf

USAAF 351st Fighter Squadron

Thunderbolt One

Squadron Commander
Kofeina

Thunderbolt Two

Pilot Two
niceguyphil

Thunderbolt Two Copy

Pilot Three
Murdock

91. Luftlande-Infanterie-Division

Alpha Gruppe

Unteroffizier Groupe Leader
Bovan
Medic
Machine Gunner
Autorifleman MP44
Orbit
Marksman
Bismarck

German Luftwaffe

Wolf Squadron (FW-190)

Squadron Commander
Martis
Pilot Two
Wolfmother
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