Partisans and Wired Bridges

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Partisans and Wired Bridges

01-05-2008, 12:57 PM,

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RE: Partisans and Wired Bridges

Fury,
I think it is possible the Russian partisans constituted a threat to the bridges in the Minsk 44 battle.
I remember reading the designers' thought was the small detachment left to guard a wired bridge (represented by only the "wired" status) could panic at the sight of 75 armed partisans closing in to capture said bridge and blow it up. Without security forces near the vital bridges, they should be an easy target for the Russian partisans.

The Russian partisans did not operate independent of the Soviet command. Bridges along the main routes German reinforcements could use were, IMHO, priority targets for the partisan forces. Such choke points as bridges are the best place for a commander to spend his limited resources seizing or destroying them in WW2.

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