Historical Coop Operation Mercury "Unternehmen Merkur"

DATE: 01/03/2020

TIME (GMT): 00:00

ERA: WW2

MAP(S): Altis

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Un-official

AUTHOR(S): Aris for BiA Community

SLOTS: 33 / 54

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The Battle of Crete, Operation Mercury, was fought during the WW2 on the Greek island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941, when Germans began airborne invasion of Crete. Greek Forces and other Allies Forces, along with Cretan civilians, defended the island. After one day of fighting, the Germans had suffered heavy casualties and the Allied troops were confident that they would defeat the invasion.

The Battle of Crete was the first occasion where Fallschirmjäger (German paratroops) were used in masse, the first main airborne invasion in military history. This was the first time the Allies made significant use of intelligence from decrypted German messages from the Enigma machine and the first time German troops encountered mass resistance from a civilian population.

At 08:00 on 20 May 1941, German paratroopers, jumping out of dozens of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft, landed near Maleme Airfield and the town of Chania. The 21st, 22nd and 23rd New Zealand battalions held Maleme Airfield and the vicinity. The Germans suffered many casualties in the first hours of the invasion, a company of III Battalion, 1st Assault Regiment lost 112 killed out of 126 men and 400 of 600 men in III Battalion were killed on the first day.

Our Forces will paradrop almost 1Km Northeast of the Maleme Airfield and will use a meeting point for all squads being the Small houses in the designated area. Then we must capture the Maleme Airfield. We need the Airfield to make it our base and resupply our air troops. We cannot do it by sea due to British Navy control. After that we must capture Chania (Molos).