Rosehip and Louie sighted the armada.
Waves of landing craft sailed towards them. Above, waves of aircraft and artillery bombarded them.
Ratat. Ratat. Rosehip made short bursts with the Lewis gun, the Bomber began smoking, and it crashed down.
"CLEAR THE RAMP! 30 SECONDS!", The boatswain called.
"Port side stick, starboard side stick, move fast and clear those murder holes!" Ogin instructed to her nervous team.
"I vant to see plenty of beach between men, five men is a juicy target, one man's a waste of ammo." Kruger advised.
"Keep the sand out of your weapons, keep those actions clear, I'll see you on the beach!" Ogin shouted.
The troops had reason to trust Ogin, she saved them at Verdun.
The ramps dropped.
RATATATATATATATATATAT Rosehip opened fire with the Lewis gun, men dropped dead.
"OVER THE SIDE! OVER THE SIDE!" Ogin screamed as they tumbled out the side.
They waded ashore, hit by gunfire and shelling.
Ogin ripped the waterproof canvas wrapping of her mp 18, and brought our her shovel.
Kruger and her team made rapid trenches and prepared for a charge.
"Murakami, those mortars ready?", Ogin asked.
"Yes boss." She replied, their mortars shelled the defenders.
Our flame throwers are good right!?", Ogin double checked.
"Affirmative." Flint spoke muffled by the gas mask, she raised her flame thrower.
A rapid bombardment ensued. Barbed wire was cut and they rushed up.
"They're swarming desu wa! " shouted Rosehip as she fired.
Kruger rushed up, hip firing a MG 08/15, suppressing them.
Ogin crept in, and snuck up on a three man machine gun crew. She sprayed them with her smg and they dropped dead.
They began to clean the trenches with fire and smgs, but the defenders weren't done yet.
Louie threw a trench gun to Rosehip, "Lock and load!".
The Canadians had an answer to the mp18.
BOOM.
The shotgun gave Rosehip a nasty kick, but enemy was dead. Louie hip fired the Lewis, countering the attackers. Then the heard the news, paratroopers overran airfield Charlie.
They evacuated through tunnels to Bravo.
"CLEAR!", Ogin shouted as Flint fired her flamethrower. But the flames burned away a hatch.
They tossed in grenades, then decided to investigate.
Hangar 7, airfield Bravo.
Rosehip and Louie emerged in Dupont's lab below the hangar, where they found James, Darjeeling, Pekoe, and Dupont who was drawing up plans to beat the red baron for Darjeeling.
BANG
BANG
They braced for a breach.
Adelmann had reached Maho and carved a small opening and reached the hangar.
BOOM
Two doors flew open, Shark team, Krueger, Maho and Adelmann.
A bullet hit the processing chamber Dupont's discovery, releasing a gas form of James's cells, everyone breathed it in.
The attackers fell back and to the outskirts , they failed. They didn't secure Dupont's discovery.
James rallied his troops. The counterattack had begun.
Maho's unit dug in further down the airfield. They need to evacuate, fast. The Royal Navy was closing in.
She heard and felt rumbling. And it grew.
Renault ft 17s. Tanks.
James blew his whistle, "OVER THE TOP!".
Instead of massed formations, they moved in small, but nimble squads, breaching a part of the German line and rushing infantry through it, forcing the enemy to retreat or get outflanked.
Tanks fired machine guns. Sweeping the trenches. BOOM.
An explosive charge detonated underneath, disabling it. But five more rattled along.
Maho hobbled back, closer to the beach.
Gunfire raged every where. There wasn't even a front line anymore.
BANG! Another division of Canadians, another desperate holdout.
In the chaos, James stumbled around and cleared the smoke, and saw that same officer.
Maho prepared to raise her luger. But he simply placed a photo on the desk she sat on and disappeared into the smoke and dust.
It was Alice's photo of Miho and her. She must've dropped it.
Krueger carried the wounded back on to the landing craft as Shark team was loaded up and shipped back.
Then finally, Maho was carried in, Krueger went in as the ramps were raised and they sailed off.