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 We're struggling to hold Normandy against the invading Allies. One objective is lost, but we're not out of the fight yet.  We've lost Caen and this means St. Lo must hold out. The town itself is fortified, but we do have to make sure that they don't get encircled and cut off. We'll try to maintain a line of defense with the town at the center. There's a chance that reserve forces arriving from the east will give us a chance to retake Caen, but that's not going to happen any time soon. At Cherbourg, it's going to be a showdown of what we have vs. what the Allies have up there, unless they land more troops. They don't appear to have much, but then again the airbases of England are a lot closer to there than any other objective. Axis Turn 8 : June 20, 1944 Clear (Dry)  We push some lighter mobile AT units into the battle and hit an unprotected convoy.  At Cherbourg, we strike back and knock out the mobile artillery.  Our Jagdpanther is able to sneak into an unguarded sector of Caen. It ought to distract the Allies while we regroup. Allied Turn 8 : June 20, 1944  No matter how far we retreat, the enemy planes will find us.  A combined air and ground assault considerably weakens the western line.  There was a patrol of Flakpanzers scouting the roads around Caen. It ran into a bunch of British tanks. They destroyed the whole unit in the space of an hour.  A continued focus on assaulting the fort eliminates one anchor of Cherbourg's outer defenses. Axis Turn 9 : June 22, 1944 Clear (Dry)  We have some success against the enemy bombers as our anti-aircraft units fight back.  The Jagdpanther in Caen shocks the British tanks that are coming back over the Oure.  The Allies seem to have halted their advance at Caen. As reinforcements move in from eastern France, we find several unoccupied towns ripe for the retaking.  Back at St. Lo, we're swapping the heavy tanks into rotation to block the road and knock out any units trying to sneak through the bocage. One unit of Sherman tanks is destroyed. Allied Turn 9 : June 22, 1944  Air raids continue over Cherbourg, but it does not appear that the American ground forces are receiving any reinforcements.  The American tanks seem particularly effective against our infantry. Luckily they aren't using them at St. Lo yet.  We now know where the bulk of the Allied force is heading. Axis Turn 10 : June 24, 1944 Raining (Dry) A summer storm hopefully signals a slowing of the Allied attack.  The concentration of force heading to St. Lo is even greater than we expected. To put it mildly.  Meanwhile, they seem to have shifted most of their units away from Caen in the hope of achieving a rapid victory. We have a good chance of taking it back if we don't mind the bombs.  The rain only seems to have worsened our luck. We try to drive the Americans out of the woods near Cherbourg but the attack fails. Allied Turn 10 : June 24, 1944  The German heavy tanks continue to hold off the advancing enemy force. Hopefully we can hold up the whole enemy army that's trying to use this road.  Cherbourg sees another breach in the defenses as the American tanks push our troops aside. We've managed to mostly hold the Allies over the last week, as they haven't been fighting us quite as hard. It's mostly due to them shifting their army to the center of the battle. They seem determined to capture St. Lo. 
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