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Battle of Castle Itter Pt.1 [Mission]

The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against an attacking force from the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the American 142nd Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division of XXI Corps arrived. The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals, tennis star Jean Borotra, and Charles de Gaulle's sister. It is one of two known times during the war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side. Popular accounts of the battle have called it the strangest battle of World War II.

Shortly after the arrival of the reinforcements, a force of 100–150 Waffen-SS soldiers led by Georg Bochmann, who had been occupying some hills near the town, decided to launch an attack. Lee had ordered the French prisoners to hide, but they remained outside and fought alongside the American and Wehrmacht soldiers. Throughout the night, the defenders were harried by a reconnaissance force sent to assess their strength and probe the fortress for weaknesses. Before the main assault began, Gangl was able to phone Alois Mayr, the Austrian resistance leader in Wörgl, and ask for reinforcements. Only two more German soldiers under his command and a teenage Austrian resistance member, Hans Waltl, could be spared, and they quickly drove to the castle.

On the morning of 5 May the attack began. A parked and disabled Sherman tank blocked the entrance to the castle for extra defense. By early afternoon, word had finally reached the 142nd of the desperation of the defenders' plight, and a relief force was dispatched. Aware that he had been unable to give the 142nd complete information on the enemy and its disposition before communications had been severed, Lee accepted Borotra's (tennis star) offer to vault the castle wall and run the gauntlet of SS strongpoints and ambushes to deliver it. Borotra asked for an American military uniform, then joined the force as it made haste to reach the prison before its defenders fired their last rounds of ammunition. The relief force arrived around 4:00 PM, and the SS were promptly defeated. Some 100 SS prisoners were reportedly taken.

This mission represents the morning-noon span of time when the allied defenders held out against invading SS forces. The second mission for this map will represent the point in the afternoon when allied forces arrived and forced the attacking SS to surrender. The map this mission uses was made using a GPS height-map scan of the real life area and various WW2 and topographic maps.

Map: Castle Itter, Austria - 5/5/1945
Gamemode: Operation (3 phases)
Invaders: Germany_axis (Waffen-SS)
Defenders: UnitedStates_allies (Combined US, Wehrmacht, and French/Austrian Forces)

Last update: 3/4/2023

Used map: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2942460587