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The “secret assembly plant” Powell finds along the Siegfried Line.
As Lt. Mike Powell heads towards the fictional Fort Schmerzen, he’s asked to infiltrate a “secret assembly plant and weapons stockpile” inside a Siegfried Line fortification and disrupt the production and resupply of the StG 44.
Col. Stanley Hargrove tells Powell that Allied bombing of the Ruhr Valley has hurt the German military, but that production of certain weapons had been moved to unknown locations. Now that Powell has found one, he needs to sneak in, steal some blueprints and the latest version of the assault rifle, then blow up the rest and escape to continue his main mission.
While the Ruhr Valley was certainly the most important industrial center in Germany during World War II, it was not the center of production for the StG 44, and even if the factories building the weapon had been bombed, it wouldn’t have made sense to move production to the Siegfried Line.
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