It was at this point that Cartwright realized that something was afoot in the Chimeran activity in the area. This action cost many lives but allowed for the continuation of the operation and saved Lieutenant Cartwright's unit from being overrun before even reaching the tunnel nexus. Hale managed to fight their way across the other bridge and overwhelm the Chimera on the other side. Although the Chimera managed to destroy one of the bridges, K Troop and Sgt. Hale arrived on the scene and assisted K Troop in holding the line. K Troop engage with the Chimera on the bridge. These Chimeran forces fought to establish a foothold on the southern side whilst the bridges were destroyed. The Chimera, desperate to protect the excavation of the Nottingham tower, counter-attacked across the pair of bridges. Cartwright and the remainder of H-Squadron but in order to meet up, its members had to cross one of two bridges across a ravine created by Chimera excavations. Childress' half of H-Squadron but the latter were all decimated destroying the mortar position. K Troop, under the command of Sergeant Brierley, were holding out to rendezvous with Lt. The British Resistance meets heavy opposition on the bridges. Hale to take a shortcut through a partially blocked train tunnel which would lead him towards Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright's squad, which had run into a particularly stubborn area of Chimeran resistance. With the mortars neutralized, Captain Parker directed sole survivor Sgt. Hale was the only soldier to come out of the building alive. Childress' troops trying to take the mortar positions. Childress' half of H-Squadron succeeded in destroying those mortar positions, it was at the cost of their own lives as The Chimera desperately tried to hold on to their mortar positions in Nottingham and although Lt. This meant that Saunders assumed control of H-Squadron for the duration of the Operation. Childress was killed distracting the mortars whilst a few of his troop and Sergeant Nathan Hale participated in the taking of the mortars. Once at the top of the hill, the mortar positions were subdued and the operation was clear to proceed. H-Squadron pushed uphill through a maze of Chimeran turret gun nests and pre-invasion positions. Childress) moved in on the tunnel nexus from the South-West in order to neutralize Chimeran mortars, which posed a large threat to the operation if left unchecked. Once inside Nottingham, half of H-Squadron (under the command of Lt. Childress reinforcing from the South and K Troop in between. Cartwright and Saunders in the North, Lt. Overview Phase one: The mortar positions 1.2 Phase two: The battle for the bridges.However, following the aftermath of Operation Shear, it was revealed that the tunnels were used to excavate a Chimeran tower. In response, Captain Rachel Parker assumed that if the tunnels were to be sealed off, it would enable a minor turning point for British forces. In the weeks prior to Shear the Chimera had used these same tunnels to attack British forces undetected. The objective of this operation was to seal off the Chimeran tunnel nexus that formed under Nottingham. Operation Shear was an offensive operation mounted in Nottingham by the British Army's 24th SAS Regiment H-Squadron on July 12th, 1951.
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