Battle of the Scheldt Campaign.Phase Three.Operation Infatuate

DATE: 16/10/2022

TIME (GMT): 18:00

ERA: WW2

MAP(S): Svartmarka

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): Aris,Vuk and Lord for Brothers in Arms

SLOTS: 95 / 98

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RATING: (17)

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Operation Infatuate was the code name given to an Anglo-Canadian operation in November 1944 during the Second World War to open the port of Antwerp to shipping and relieve logistical constraints. The operation was part of the wider Battle of the Scheldt and involved two assault landings from the sea by the 4th Special Service Brigade and the 52nd (Lowland) Division. At the same time the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division would force a crossing of the Walcheren Causeway.

No. 4 Commando landed at 05:45 hours just east of the Oranjemolen, a windmill on the sea dyke at Flushing, with the main part of the troops arriving ashore at 06:30 hours. No. 4 Commando, under Lt-Colonel Robert W.P. Dawson DSO, had problems finding a suitable place to get ashore. Dawson sent a small reconnaissance party (known as Keepforce) ashore in two LCVPs. They were followed by Nos. 1 and 2 Troop, who secured the beachhead with minimal casualties and soon began to take prisoners. The main body came in at 06:30 hours, but by this time the Germans were alert and opened heavy fire with machine guns and 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon. Nevertheless, the Commandos got ashore with only a few casualties, although the Landing Craft Assaults (LCAs) containing the heavier equipment, including 3-inch mortars, hit a stake and sank some 20 yards (20 m) offshore. The mortars were salvaged.

We play as  British No 4 Commando who were ferried across from Breskens in small landing craft to an assault beach in the south-eastern area of Flushing, codenamed Uncle Beach.