Red Star Express RCW (id:#60520)

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West of Sitsa, Maritime Province, Siberia 1919-06-26 (0 others)

Overview:

During the afternoon pf the 25th, word reached Maj. Gen. Graves in Vladivostok about the Bolsheviks attacking A Company that morning at Romanovka, Graves ordered Major Joiner to send elements of C & D Companies by train to the Suchan mines. The troops left Skhkotova on the morning of the 26th to clear out the Bolsheviks along the railroad. The first stop was to reinforce a platoon of C Company that was guarding the Sitsa Bridge. However, during the night of the 25th, Partisan leader Sergei Lazo had formed up a group of 200 mean to try and stop the American reinforcements. As the Americans neared the bridge, their train came under a fusillade of fire from a commanding forested hill overlooking the railroad. Both companies detrained and immediately engaged the partisans on the hill. While the US troops were fighting the partisans on the hill, a group of mine workers with some explosives worked their way to the bridge.

Defender: Bolshevik Partisans (Elements of Bolshevik Partisans and Suchan Mine Workers)  

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