September '44 and the Race is On!

The advance had been a constant thing. The 3 months since the Normandy Landings have been a steady diet of marching and fighting. Some days the enemy fell back at break neck speed, while on others he stood and fought with almost reckless abandon. As the borders of Germany proper approached, days like the later have been the more common of the two. The Ruhr Valley, Germany’s production hub, lay just ahead, with only a 50 square mile forest and some rivers in the way.

The frontline has begun to stabilize just short of the little Hϋrtgen Forest and the German’s Siegfried Line. While the beans and bullets catch-up, and the Brass does whatever the Brass is going to do up north, it’s back to scouting, patrolling, and preparing.

It’s just a little forest, and everyone likes walks in the woods, right?