By: String
| Background: On April 28th 1945 Regensburg falls to the U.S. Forces. The door is now open to the Danube Valley. |
| German Forces will try to make a stand on the Isar River line from Landshut to Plattling with elements of the 11th PzDv, the 46th Vg Div., 10th Fallshirmjäger Div. and some odd elements of the SS. |
| At the Fliegerhorst outside of Straubing, Oberleutnant Lorenz, commander of the 7th Co., 28th Fallschirmjäger Regt. was given the mission to form a small Kampftruppe to delay forces advancing on Straubing. He is now implementing his plan. |
| Lorenz flags down a kublewagen with some stray SS troops and orders them to go back to Straubing and guide the remnants of the 46th Vg. Div. to the blocking position now being formed. |
| Medic Obenfeldwebel Walter Holderbaum checks on an exhausted trooper on the side of the river trail. |
| Walter, a veteran of the Krimea Campaign, had seen his entire platoon and patients slaughtered by the Russians. He has carried an automatic weapon since. |
| SS or not, Lorenz orders them they are now part of his ADHOC formation. |
| A Tiger tank from the 11th Pz Dv. passes through as the kubelwagen turns around to return to Staubing. |
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