It would have been a quiet nocturnal reconnaissance mission. A routine operation, almost like a stroll in the park. We had thoroughly studied the layout of the camp. The Colonel named it “Operation Mosquito”, because we would move towards the German lights at nighttime not being any more noisy than mosquitoes. Of course things did not go as planned.
Mac Hinshwett, a Scottish “mosquito”, of about 16 stone and 3 lbs, got caught in the glare of an AA spotlight. His instant reflex was to turn it off with a grenade…
Within seconds several MG’s opened up on us. Luckily, right after the bang, we had scattered for cover in all directions. We had to think fast. To give the others some sort of chance to slip past the MG’s, join up with us and leave this place, we needed to create a diversion and kill all the lights. Sasha, our demolitions expert, set out to blow up the generator…”

Required equipement

Heroes of Normandie-ENG

D-DAY – ENG

Commonwealth Army Box ENG

Devil Pig News #1 ENG

German Army Box

posted by yann the [13/07/2016]