The Fall of Meiktila, IV Corps, 225th Tank Brigade. 28th of February 1945*
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Date: February 28, 1945*
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Battle Location: Meiktila, Central Burma*
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Battle Type: UK (Assault) vs Japan (Defend)*
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Description:
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British Fourteenth Army has pulled off a great coup, having convinced the Japanese of Burma Area Army that IV Corps had been committed along the Irrawaddy north of Mandalay. In fact, the veteran units composing IV Corps had been secretly and skillfully shifted nearly a hundred miles south of their supposed location. The armour of 225th Tank Brigade easily punched through the local Japanese screens on that stretch of the Irrawaddy River. Having burst into operational manouvering space, Pert's 255 Tank Brigade and Cohen's 7th Indian Division charged deep into the Japanese rear, aiming for the rail hub and supply center of Meiktila. On the 28th of February, the Shermans and Daimlers of 255 Tank Brigade swept around the northern flank of the garrison at Meiktila and assaulted the city from the east. The poorly equipped Japanese fought house-to-house, throwing suicide squads equipped with pole charges and molotov cocktails against the attacking British and Colonial Troops.*
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Notes: Converted/adapted by Jose Logrono from the original 1995 Steel Panthers wargame.*
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Original Design by: Mitch Hagmaeir (Scenario found in Hapshott's Steel Panthers scenario collection @
www.alternatewars.com/Games/SP/SPanthers.htm).**