Battle in the Bocage

Battle in the Bocage
Previous level	Omaha Beach
Next level	The Nebelwerfer Hunt
Game	Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Character	Lieutenant Mike Powell
Team	101st Airborne Division
Weapons	M1A1 Thompson Browning Automatic RifleColt .45 Mark II Frag Grenades
Enemy weapons	Karabiner 98 Kurz, MP40
Place	Normandy, France
Date	June 7, 1944
Enemies	Waffen S.S. Infantry, Waffen S.S. NCOs, Panzergrenadiers, Heer Infantry

Battle in the Bocage is the second level in the mission Operation Overlord, the third mission of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

Briefing

Battle in the Bocage - Normandy, France
June 7, 1944

Excellent job on Omaha. Due to your exemplary actions, you've been reassigned to a special mission with Captain Ramsey from A Company. The situation in the bocage is grim. The overgrown hedgerows dividing the landscape past the beach provide the Germans with perfect defensive territory; our every offensive is met with tenacious overlapping defenses - MG42s, mortars, 88's - you name it. Certain areas that were to be taken by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions remain in enemy hands; a result of the misdrops on the night of the invasion.

Your mission is to penetrate enemy lines, disrupt enemy defenses, and link up with paratroopers from the 101st who were tasked to destroy a special target between Isigny and Carentan. If they're understrength or KIA, you are to complete their mission with Ramsey. A jeep is available for transport, but there's no way to tell how far you'll get before you have to abandon it, as the roads closer to the target are well defended by 88mm guns.

You'll receive further details once you're in the field. Best of luck, Lieutenant.

Stanley Hargrove
Colonel, U. S. Army,
Commanding.

Objectives

• Search the house.
• Defend the back of the house.
• Defend the front of the house.
• Locate any Flak 88's guarding the road.
• Find a radio to call an airstrike on the Flak 88 cannon.
• Find the radio near the silo and use it to call an airstrike on the Flak 88 cannon.
• Call an airstrike on the Flak 88.
• Destroy the anti-aircraft gun so air support can return.
• Call an airstrike on the second Flak 88.
• Bypass the roadblock.

Characters

• Lt. Mike Powell (Playable)
• Cpt. Ramsey
• Pvt. Durden
• Pvt. Paulsen (KIA)
• Pvt. Cobb
• Radio Operator Paratrooper (KIA)
• Unknown Paratrooper (KIA)
• 2 Paratroopers (KIA)
• Pilot

Weapons

Starting

• Thompson
• M1903/A5 Springfield
• Browning Automatic Rifle
• Colt .45
• Mark II fragmentation grenades

Others

• MG42 (Mounted)

Vehicles

• Willy's Jeep(Destroyed)
• M4 Sherman (Destroyed)
• Panzer IV (Destroyed)
• Sd.Kfz. 251
• P-47
• Opel Admiral (Destroyed)

Quotes

Ramsey:"Let's check out this house. Some boys from the 101st could be trapped inside." "Expect close contact."

Ramsey:"Use a grenade!"

Ramsey:"Thunder!"

Paulsen:"Flash!"

Ramsey:"Hey,alright. some airborne boys."

Paulsen:"Boy are we glad to see you." "We landed way off target sir. We've been trying to find our regiment ever since,but there are snipers everywhere. " (Paulsen's final words)

Ramsey:"Powell,stay here & watch the back."

Ramsey:"Powell,help me cover the front."

Ramsey:"Okay. I think that's the last of them."

Ramsey:"Check your ammo."

Ramsey:"Ah so much for our transport."

Ramsey:"It looks like we`ll have to finish this mission on foot."

Ramsey:"Beautiful.That`s the way to win a war."

Trivia

• Sometimes if you turn on the level using the console, the player will hear throughout the level of the voice from the walkie-talkie.
• Despite the fact that during this and the next level, the player fights against the Waffen SS, at the end of the level, 2 Wehrmacht soldiers appear.

Background Music

• "The U-Boat" (MoH Soundtrack)