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American Assault

Battle for Appaloosa

The Appaloosa Home Guard were being attacked by the Griffon 3rd Company of about 100 to 200 soldiers using Iron weapons. The Home Guard were made up of the townsfolk using hand crafted weapons. There were barricades made up of furniture and were set ablaze to redirect the Griffons' attack. A platoon of Griffons were flanking the Home Guard while their main force engaged them from the front. This would make them fight on two fronts easily eliminating them. Little did they know they were being watched by the US 5th Armored Division. The division consisted of Hellcat tank destroyers, Chaffee light tanks, M4A3E8 Shermans (Easy 8). There were a couple infantry regiments, field artillery battalions along with a police platoon to stay in the town and protect it.

While the Home Guard and the 3rd Griffon Company attacked each other, they heard thundering roars of explosions. Then, explosions occurred around the Griffons causing the Home Guard to retreat. The flanking Griffon platoon were picked off by a sniper team. The Griffons retreated with 25 survivors and 75 wounded forcing them to take the most skilled soldiers and left their comrades behind. While they retreated, infantry regiments quickly took up firing positions and shot at the retreating Griffons. Soon, the 25 survivors were either wounded or dead. The wounded they left behind bled out and the same goes for the others.

Major General Lunsford E. Oliver was managing his men and equipment and left the police platoon to stay for a few fays to keep the peace in Appaloosa. Realizing they had an organized defense this was cancelled and the Major gave away some of his food supplies to help the Home Guard. Soon, the 5th Armored Division rolled into the desert.

2nd Battle of the Crystal Empire

The Crystal Army led by Shining Armor tried to defend the Crystal Empire from the Griffons who attacked from the air and the Changelings who attacked from the ground flanking them. It was a pincer maneuver designed to encircle the enemy and eliminate him quickly. It looked like the Crystal Army was surrounded and some who weren't encircled were split apart. The Crystal Army over 500,000 strong were being separated by the Changeling Swarms and the Griffon 5th Elite Regiment making 600,000 strong. The Crystal Army were being separated into battalions as the advancing enemy approached.

Shining Armor gutted a Griffon and stabbed a few Changelings to hold his ground. The fighting was fierce, iron clashing against each other and screams of agony and pain filled the air. The fighting lasted for hours as thousands of soldiers on both sides began to die in minutes. Soon, the Crystal Army was taking heavy casualties. 235,219 Crystal soldiers were left, their opponents however, had 413,843 soldiers. As the fighting continued, the casualties racked up. Then, a faint buzzing noise was heard in the distance sounding like a swarm of bees. In the skies came American P-51 Mustangs along with B17 Flying Fortress bombers. The P 51's shot down Griffons from the sky literally ripping them to shreds with their 50 cal. machine guns. The B 17's unleashed a massive carpet of bombs on the Griffon Ground forces marching their way towards the battle. The reinforcements were obliterated by the bombs leaving no survivors.

The numbers on the casualties for the Griffons and Changelings were rising at an extremely fast rate. Then, Sherman Crocodile tanks rumbled forward using a flamethrower and its main gun to erase enemy hostiles. the Griffons burned to death and screams filled the air as Changelings were incinerated by the flames. The battle was over as the whole army of changelings and Griffons died from the American combined support.

Operation Eagle Strike

Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted an airlift operation to parachute troops behind the Griffon lines and deep into the behind Changeling lines with the help of air support to cut off the retreat of the Changelings and put them out of action. The operation was approved by Churchill and Hitler who both offered to help in the operation in which Eisenhower accepted. The operation was going to involve the 101st Airborne, The Red Devils and the 1st Fallschirmjager Divisions.

On the scheduled time, C 47 planes prepared to take off to drop the paratroopers. The Red Devils were going to drop behind the Changeling armies near Appaloosa, the Fallschirmjager behind the Changelings attacking the Crystal Empire and the 101st Airborne into the Everfree forest. The Red Devils had the shortest distance from their operation and dropped first.

The Red Devils of Britain were now behind Changeling lines attacking Appaloosa. The division was scattered into many squads attacking many different camps and outposts. They engaged in battle overcoming them with blitzkrieg tactics learned from the Germans and marked targets for P47 Thunder bolts and B 25 Mitchell bombers. These targets were supply convoys, depots and camps. The Changeling camps were set on fire and were caught in a two front battle. One against Appaloosa's Home Guard and one against Britain's famed Red Devil
paratroopers. These paratroopers were poorly armed but made great use of them attacking specific parts of the body to help them wound, engage and execute.

The Fallschirmjager divisions were parachuting a few miles in front a retreating Changeling army. Platoons and battalions watched the roads for incoming Changelings. These soldiers were armed to the teeth with their STG 44's, Gewehr 43's and the fearsome Panzerfaust were sure going to cause devastating damage. The Fallschirmjagers saw a few regiments of retreating Changelings on different roads, all of them were exhausted, a perfect time to attack. They engaged the surprised changelings and quickly eradicated them with a few grenades and spray of bullets. Some of the Changelings engaged the Fallschirmjager in hand to hand combat even though they were exhausted. The Fallschirmjagers excel at hand to hand and since these Changelings were tired, they were beaten to death with the butt of the rifles. The retreating Changelings were now surrounded giving a perfect time to close in.

The 101st Airborne finally made it to their destination in the Everfree Forest. many of the soldiers had radios and petrol bombs to mark out specific targets to slow down the Changelings and wear them down. However, the strongest forces were retreating from Ponyville, Canterlot and Cloudsdale in which the Russians and Germans had made their mark in these areas and killed many of these battle hardened Changelings. The 101st's battalions saw retreating Changelings pulling wagons of wounded and supplies. Some of them saw some camps holding supplies and were turned to strongholds. The strongholds consisted of ruined buildings with defenses like catapults lobbing improvised explosives. These targets were marked out for the Long Tom artillery guns to pound along with some B 25 Strafers to combat the Changeling swarms in the air. The 101st managed to burn down small camps tending the wounded along with supply depots being burned down limiting food supplies for the Changelings. They also managed to mark the Griffon reinforcements as targets for air attacks. The B 25 Strafers bombed the reinforcements scattering them with only a handful of survivors at the breaking point.

The operation was going well. Little did the Allies knew, that the Griffons and the Changelings were developing new weapons.