Decision Games - Mortain Counterattack: The Drive to Avranches ASL including a hand holding a

including a hand holding a mortar bomb and a pair of hands holding the HMG triggers

– 5x Krieg Combat Engineers

nasty Scots with axes

The Gap Is Blocked (5/8-5/10/1864

Figure Painting: Jason Frowde (Painting Knights)

Decision Games - Mortain Counterattack: The Drive to Avranches ASL including a hand holding aMortain Counterattack: The Drive to Avranches The Normandy beachhead was broken wide open by the US drive south through Avranches, followed by rapid advances into Brittany and central France. The operation, however, hung on a slender thread: the lone supply line for the breakout ran through Avranches. Hitler and his generals recognized the weakness; the generals thought the German army in Normandy lacked the strength to take Avranches, but Hitler