John Kettler Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) My favorite retired US Army Scout, SFC George Kettler, asked for my help assembling some game chrome for his upcoming 4-player CoC battle, naming a battalion CO who died in the real one. He was posthumously awarded a DSC. The unit itself won a DUC for what it did. This was a very hairy and super expensive fight for two German towns, Hastenrath and Schnerpenseel, as part of the Siegfried Line campaign. It makes Fury look like the attack of the pantywaists! https://3ad.com/history/wwll/memoirs.pages/earl.htm Regards, John Kettler Edited April 15, 2021 by John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Am highly surprised that a pair of battles falling smack dab in the subject area for CMBB has generated so few views and no comments in almost 24 hours. Was the headline not compelling? This is an account of battles in which an entire US tank battalion was reduced to a shell of itself, the tanks almost ran out of ammo, enemy fire rained down, resistance was ferocious, etc. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 It's definitely a good read. I enjoyed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Vergeltungswaffe, Glad you found it worthwhile. All, Thanks to brother George, here' s a longish article that puts the above OP battles into a much greater context, so much so that the battles in the OP are described only in the last two paragraphs.https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2020/03/01/operation-queen-the-western-allied-november-1944-offensive/?fbclid=IwAR28Zj4kYjLdOfV3p9p2WRtkbFCGvo1LowsSPK1jflgbtsRXsQnPaePWGoU Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 An interesting read John (the first one, haven't got onto your brother's yet). In amongst the action, two things stood out. 1. He said God told him to turn right. I'm sure any watching Germans would have said "aber Gott ist mit uns?" . 2. He said a white hot 18 pound round penetrated his Sherman just before they bailed out (from an AT gun firing at extreme range)? Oh and perhaps a third... 3. He said a Panzerfaust was fired out of a building. I thought this was a no-no? But I'm sure it happened in the heat (literally) of the moment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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