1st GSASL RANGER BRIGADE
1st RANGER BATTALION
MIEL COMPANY
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Mission 1 in  Palermo, Sicily. 02 AUG 43 : Patrol
Ranger and Italian columns met halfway and the captured L3 was lost right away.  Leading platoons dispatched the Italian infantry but third platoon covering the west  got hit hard by two enemy companies.  Thanks to the Brits the Italian tanks were stopped and the battlefield mopped up.
Mission 2 near Palermo, Sicily. 08 AUG 43 :  Scenario 1 : Amphibious Assault
The landing went rather smooth with just some LC running aground and two MG nests firing on the Rangers.  Once the hills were taken resistance stiffened and both HT were lost to enemy vehicles.  In the end the area was secured but with rising casualities
Scenario 2 : Cautious Advance
Again first contact resulted in large groups of Italians surrendering.  As troops moved inland 1st Lieutenant Mielants was wounded in the arm and head. All VPO's were secured.
Mission in an Italian Island. 15 SEP 43 :  Scenario 1 : Coastal Artillery Battery
End of turn 4 with MIEL company within the wired zone and poised to overrun the coastal guns
Scenario 2 : Attack on an Enemy dug-in position
End of turn 6 with 1st Platoon hitting a bunker complex on the southern part of Hill 621 and 3rd platoon clearing the northern part
Scenario 3 : Fight through town
End of turn 5 with the company searching its way through large groups of Reichsführer squads.
Reinforced with a Sherman MIEL Company set of to reduce two pockets.  Infiltrating enemy decimated the company and made this one a draw.
Scenario 3A : Encircled platoon
End of turn 2  : MIEL company, reinforced with a new NBT platoon, is working its way to the hard pressed Goums in the east.  "Lafayette, here we come".
Scenario 3B : Cautious Advance
End of turn 2  : The French Company is closing in on Paratrooper strongholds
Scenario 3Bbis : Pockets
The reduced Goums and Rangers encountered a few pocketed Paratrooper squads which were swiftly eliminated.
1943
Third Platoon under attack mid-game.
MIEL Company came, saw and took the artillery position with ease.
Heavy resistance on the fortified hill and Germans digging in all over the place.  In the end the hill was secured.
The encircled French were hit hard upon first contact and just a few were rescued.  Lt Mielants eliminated a FT squad earning him the Silver Star.
CO 1st Lieutenant Hans Mielants
The French Goum company advanced in two groups and hit on some heavy MG fire which was overcome after some intense fighting.
Mission in Italy 1. 22 DEC 1943 :
Scenario 1 : Search & Destroy
A mobile group swung along a railroad towards the village center as a MG group grounded down the German resistance.  British reinforcements sealed the German defence.
End of turn 4  with the mobile group holding a small German counterattack from the south.
Scenario 2 : Encircled platoon
The rescue group managed to get to tbe Brits before much damage was done.  The German counterattack was furious but too late to prevent the escape.
End of turn 4  with the first Americans getting into contact with the stranded Brits.
1944