ASL - Purple Heart Draw

ASL - Purple Heart Draw contains:

•     A 23 "x 30" full-color historical map of the eastern slope area of Hill 192,
•     Four Scenarios played on different parts of the map,
•     A five-scenario, campaign game date; and
•     PHD chapter that includes the rules for playing the campaign game

St-Georges-d'Elle France, July 11, 1944: The morning is cool and a mist has settled on the slopes of Hill 192. For the men of Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, this weather meant that air support for the attack would be cancelled. Launching just after 6:00 a.m., Company A crossed its starting line, the road that ran west from St. Georges-d'Elle. Within 200 to 400 yards of its starting line was a long, steep ravine that ran 750 yards east to west along the battalion's front, called the Purple Heart Draw. A Company did not encounter strong opposition until it reached the Purple Heart Draw, then deadly fire broke out from automatic weapons placed in houses along the road south of St. Georges-d'Elle and the south bank of the draw...


St-Georges-d'Elle, France, 11 July 1944: Company A was pinned down by heavy mortar and artillery fire in the Purple Heart Draw; Company C, to its right, advanced against lesser odds, in part with the help of sappers from the American 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, who cut gaping holes in the thick sides of the hedgerows to allow the supporting tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion to pass. The men of C Company quickly followed and by mid-morning were closing in on the small castle, which appeared heavily fortified and bristling with German machine guns...

St-Georges-d'Elle, France, July 11, 1944: By late morning, the 1st Battalion, 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, finally made it through Purple Heart Draw, but suffered heavy casualties. Meanwhile, on the east side of St. Georges-d'Elle, the Germans still held the lower part of Purple Heart Draw. In order to prevent the Germans from reinforcing their position in front of the 1st Battalion's main effort, it was decided that the 3rd Battalion, U.S. 23rd Infantry Regiment would launch a series of diversionary attacks. Company L of the US 23rd Infantry Regiment set out to clear the eastern half of St-Georges-d'Elle, but no sooner had it crossed the last hedge just north of the town than it too came under heavy fire...

St-Georges-d'Elle, France, July 11, 1944: Throughout the day, the advance of the 1st Battalion, 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, although slowed by stubborn resistance, was too much for the Germans, who struggled to hold Hill 192 and their lines near St-Georges-d'Elle. The Germans, in a last desperate attempt to halt the American advance, were forced to commit the Fallschirm Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 12, the Fallschirm Aufklärungs-Kompanie 3, and their last reserves, the Fallschirm Pionerie-Abteilung 3, to a last-ditch counterattack northward along the heavily treed road toward St. Georges-d'Elle, hoping to surprise the Americans...