1st Chronicles Of V Panzer Army DAR

[Cole]

The majority of Kampfgruppe Telkamp's striking power has now joined up with the 293rd. A brave Panther crested a ridge and braved op fire in order to locate the retreating American M-10s. The Panther had to retreat back down the hill but not before radioing information on the American positions. Using this information a few Panther and PZ-IV platoons crossed the last exposed ground, crossing a small bridge and then up a wooded hill unopposed.

I'm hoping that Steve is now having to make hard decisions on his defense. It seems I don't have much in the way of the Kampfgruppe except two M-19 platoons and I suspect that Steve has withdrawn some of the armor involved in defending Wallenrode to meet this threat.

At the Steinebruck Fords I could only spot two of the armor units that were engaged and disrupted by my panzers last turn. Hopefully a couple of those platoons are also being rushed back towards St. Vith.

I also have troops deep in the forest just to the east of St. Vith and think I have caught the Americans weak spot. There's not much left in the way of infantry in this advance and they won't have much hope of beating any determined resistance but it should add more pressure to a defense I think is starting to get worn down.

The bad news for me is that I expect all the loaded trucks spotted a couple of turns earlier by the western most elements of Telkamp should be arriving soon in St. Vith. I've been allocating indirect fire missions along the lone paved road to the west.

Down by the Burg Rueland Fords my joke is now reality. I will swap banks of the Our River with the Americans. I have pretty much cleared the hill on the west bank but I've been facing at least a battalion of American infantry moving north on the east bank. This turn I moved advanced two depleted platoons into some woods overlooking the American positions and had those two platoons almost wiped out by op fire from HMG and LMG platoons.