Joe’s Bridge, Irish vs Germans: Bolt Action Battle Report

Описание: Joe's Bridge is the nickname given to Bridge No.9 on the Bocholt-Herentals Canal, in the Belgian city of Lommel just south of the Belgian Dutch border.

The bridge was captured by British troops in September 1944, becoming the springboard for the ground offensive of Operation Market Garden.

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While the Welsh Guards engaged the German forces around Hechtel, the Irish Guards advanced rapidly north east through the villages of Eksel, Overpelt and Neerpelt, and launched their combined infantry tank assault, with artillery support, from the grounds of the zinc processing factory in Overpelt and took the bridge undamaged.

The capture of the bridge completed the encirclement of German troops in Hechtel.

German units tried for some days to recapture the bridge from the north but were driven off, once with bayonets.

Once the bridge was secure, men of the 615th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, set about repairing it, while the Irish Guards secured a bridgehead along the N69 main road towards Valkenswaard.

Some 1.9 mi (3 km) to the west, in the center of Lommel, SS troops had placed 40 randomly selected Belgian civilians in the street, at machine gun-point, as a human shield. The swift advance of the British from the east prevented a massacre.

The Germans held the north side of the canal up to 17 September, apart from the area around the bridge.

The bridge became known as "Joe's Bridge", after Lieutenant–Colonel Joe Vandeleur, or possibly because the Royal Engineers troop who repaired it was known as "Joe's Troop".

Watch as Rick combination of German panzer-grenadiers, Waffen SS and myriad of other troops along with tanks, puma and Hanomag attempt the daring retaking of the bridge.

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Watch as Reichstag Rick and I fight it out in a 'fast and furious' battle report set at the start of Operation Market Garden, the fate of both nations depends on it!

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