User blog:Brockfang/Cobona's Mission

The 132nd battalion stormed ashore under withering fire from the company of weasels that were manning the machine gun nests. Major Quinn Longjump, a hare communications specialist with Company D, made it ashore with his bulky TBX radio taking some of the vermin bullets and thus saving his life. He dodged for cover as he made it halfway up the beach from the landing craft and tripped on a dead comrade. Quinn jumped up and made an ungainly spring for the trees, machine gun fire following him to the tree line. As he reached the trees he noticed how little of his battalion was making it up the shore. He was suddenly pulled down by a sergeant as the weasels started firing again.

Rear Admiral Reginald Sinsestra was sitting offshore on the NMS Mandoral waiting for orders after his bombardment of the little island of Megad, which the vermin were stationed on. He noticed how little damage the bombardment had done and ordered his frigates closer to shore to take out the machine gunss before he turned his ship away to do a lone patrol.

Admiral Sinsestra's ‘’Mandoral’’ was cruising to the south of the island when he encountered a convoy of three destroyers. The Admiral wisely requested for at least one ship to come aid his battlecruiser before opening fire on the vermin destroyers. All three triple turrets opened up at once and rained fourteen inch shells on the destroyers. Sinsestra himself could see that his guns had hit at least one of the destroyers by the way it was smoking. The other two destroyers rushed into torpedo range and launched two spreads of four torpedoes. Sinsestra speeded up to thirty knots and easily avoided the torpedoes. This move however brought him into the destroyers' guns range. They opened up on the big battlecruiser with their four and six inch guns. The ‘’Mandoral’’ was hit aft and one of the shells hit the engine room reducing the fast ship down to twenty-one knots. The ship’s guns were by this time reloaded and the ‘’Mandoral’’ returned fire to the destroyers. A second destroyer was hit and was damaged severely with its speed reduced to two knots. Radar on board the battlecruiser showed another ship coming west, a larger ship, probably a cruiser, which was coming nearer at about 28 knots.

Meanwhile Major Quinn Longjump was busy calling reports out to the battleship Maybach, the flagship of the invasion. Quinn’s division had cleared one machine gun nest, with the help of the frigates, and was now working on the second one. By this time the 140th infantry division had also arrived on the beach and reinforced the 132nd.

Two weeks after the 132nd had landed the 5th Engineer Mole Corps landed on the Island. Though a bit seasick they at once began clearing the beach of obstacles and made a road for the tanks to get off of the beach on."