Steel Panthers 1 SSI game scenario: OPERATION MERKUR, CRETE, MAY 20, 1941

In the final chapter of Hitler's Balkan campaign, General Kurt
Student, commander of the Fallschirmjager, has been tasked with the
invasion of Crete. The Germans believe that by capturing Crete,
they can keep the Royal Air Force farther away from the Rumanian
oil fields, gain a new base to interdict British shipping and fleet

movements, and secure their right flank for the upcoming invasion
of the Soviet Union, code-named BARBAROSSA.

Companies 3 & 4, I Battalion, Sturmregiment, 7th Fallschirmjager Division has
been tasked with securing Maleme Airfield and Hill 107. After the airfield has  
been secured, Luftwaffe Ju-52s can begin air-landing the 5th Mountain Division.
Defenders consist of Companies A, C, & D, 22nd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 2nd New 
Zealand Infantry Division.

REFERENCES

Beever, Antony. Crete: The Battle and Resistance. Boulder,
  Colorado: Westview Press, 1994.

Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military
  History from 3500 B.C. to the present. New York: Harper and Row,
  Publishers, 1977.

The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. Ed. Thomas E.
  Griess. Department of Military History, States Military Academy,
  West Point, New York. Wayne, New Jersey: Avery Publishing Group Inc, 1989.

Whiting, Charles. Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps
  1940-1945. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.

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