SITREP Operation TORCH

Operation Torch
MISSION
Nov 7th Jump with 509th Pathfinders in C-47's take a radio station, transmit a guiding signal, & make your way to beachhead Z at ZERO hour
& use your torch to signal & guide in the first wave
; password "whiskey," response "soda."
link up with RTC Armor & act as a Liason Officer with the 506th & guide them inland
TARGET Tafaraoui airfield

Remember the French are potential Allies & we are under the "Peace plan"
Radio plans to revert to "War plan"
Radio:BatterUp = Unit prepariong to Fire on (Neutral?) French
Radio:Playball = Return Fire - Fire at Will

Oposition suspected to be light composed of Units of French army Corps in Oran
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3 planes made it from england not intitially together & lost
- shot down by French. we do a hot jump.
16 unwounded including one pilot, 13 wounded
decided to leave all NPCs with one wrecked aircraft, head towards
objective (Alex's decision)

Met with resistance member on the march. Blew a tire; fixed that.
Got stuck trying to cross railroad tracks; Russell rolled an 8 with
Hstrength.

Got to town, met up with lots more resistance people. Found the tower,
no guards. Door locked (duh); I picked lock. We relock the door after
we go through.
One guy on second floor, Alex slit his throat. Transmitter room on 2nd
floor; 3rd floor is half a large office which has booze, with antenna on
other half; basement holds generator (British). I start generator,
Russell and Kirby guard stairwell to upper floors and drink the found
booze, Alex tunes transmitter and gets it going (rolled 8)

Around 0145, French Army shows up at the door, which we locked...
Russell opens the door shoots one and slams and locks the door,
I (Jones) grenade them from the second floor, (and now remember I wanted to
spend some time practicing Throwing skill)
Russell opens the door shoots one and slams and locks the door,
I grenade them from the second floor,
2 armored cars show up. There's also a firefight going on down the
street, where the police station is.

Kirby throws one of the undrunk bottles and takes out an armored car;
Russel Bitches at him,
*Memorable Quote*
Kirby complains back, I though that's what you meant when you said they wer'na' for drink'in?!

Alex snipes an escaping crew;
we manage to restrain Kirby from throwing the last bottle.

We sneak out the back of the building, and find our
resistance contact who still has a car; we get out of town with no
problems; the two Resistance guys we were drinking with, stayed in the
station (I did tell them we were leaving; they didn't want to leave).

We make it to the invasion beach; I start signalling.
Blue lights from the sea, and dark shapes getting closer.
Higgins boats.
I finish my remaining bottle.

We meet with a force of Stuarts, get a lift. A 509th plane sees us
moving and thinks we're French and drops on us; we give them and two
more sticks a lift to the airfield.
The airfield is Tarafoui airfield; this is the way we came from the town
of Valmy.
Railroad on the left side of the road.

We find the airfield, and negotiate with the airfield commander; I
detect that he's stalling, and give him 30 seconds to surrender.
He does, the entire airfield.
Russell goes back to sleep.
Until we loot the airfield.
1 set of silk sheets (2)
1 set of crystal shot glasses (4)
1 hip flask of brandy
1 Lebel rifle
3 silk scarves

End of game.