Battlegroup: La Haye du Puits

Battlegroup La Haye du Puits

This book presents a series of World War Two wargame scenarios based on General Middleton’s US VIII Corps' offensive to capture the  market-town and road-hub of La Haye du Puits and break out of the sapping Normandy bocage country, July 1944. The scenarios are all aimed to be played on average sized wargames tables and with forces that range from a few squads up to a couple of platoons per side and using the Battlegroup rule system. 

On July 3rd, General Middleton’s US VIII Corps will begin a new offensive with its three infantry divisions, with the objective of capturing La Haye du Puits, after first surrounding it. The right of this offensive’s sector is held by the US 79th Infantry Division, ‘the Cross of Lorraine’.

Their mission is to attack and breakthrough the German screening positions immediately ahead of them, and then advance to take the slightly higher ground, just west of the town, called the Montgarden Ridge. This higher ground is the main line of resistance of the German 353rd Infantry Division, a full strength and fresh unit in Normandy. It is called ‘the Mahlmann Line’.