Battle of Panjwai , Legion Article

[RHFC_piper]

True. I am sure in the future it will be open source. Thanks anyways!

Stuff like this is just much easier for me to understand on a map:

Lavoie's Canadian force was Charles Company in the south, coming through Bazaar-e-Panjwai, with Bravo Company in the north, fighting southward. On one flank was Task Force 31, comprised of coalition--mainly U.S.--Special Forces and also Task Force Grizzly, an American company. With a Danish squad in position to the west and a Dutch Company patrolling the perimeter to the north, the enemy were pretty much surrounded.

Op Medusa began at first light on Sept. 2 with an attack on two axes, with the main effort being in the south. There, Sprague and Charles Company, in the main, were to seize the high features around Panjwai--Masum and Mar Ghar--and isolate the town of Panjwai itself. They would advance right up to the south bank of the Arghandab River, but not across.

You can find Bazaar-e-Panjwai and Masum Gahr on Google Earth; that where we (C Coy) were sitting on the 2nd.  Then we moved north on the 3rd, across the Arghandab...  Thats about the best map you're going to find for now.  Hope that helps a bit.

 

[Haletown]

Anyone looking for a crisply written account of operations in Afghanistan - Yesterday I received my Winter 2008 edition of the  Canadian Military History Journal  (http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/cmh/cmhindex.html)  and there is an OPSEC cleared article by  Sean M. Maloney  "Incursion at Howz-e-Mada, An Afghanistan Vignette" (pg 63-78)

Very well written, rich in details including maps and photos to assist with the written terrain analysis and extensive use of "insider type" information -

Great read.

 

[Armymedic]

The rest of the articles:

http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2007/11/operation-medusa-the-battle-for-panjwai-2/

 

[Armymedic]

the final installment:

http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2008/01/operation-medus-part-3-the-fall-of-objective-rugby/