I went back and reread the info from the UK sourcebook and found this on page 8, under the year 1997:
<<On 2 April 2, NATO launched Operation Advent Crown. The
German Second Army drove up the Baltic coast, and the German
Third Army advanced along the Oder River. The German First
Army, to which 1st Corps was attached, was ordered to drive
through central Poland. Led by 1st Armoured Division, 1st Corps
broke through the Polish forces on the Oder on the 24th. On 4 May,
the division entered Poznan, and the corps split into two columns,
with 1st and 2nd divisions continuing east, while the rest of the
corps headed southeast. On 11 May, the 4th Armoured Division
took Kalisz, encountering only scattered opposition; on 17 May, it
reached Lodz, which fell on the 25th. By the end of May, the two
columns linked up on the outskirts of Warsaw—the corps was
ordered to take the city.>>
The British BOAR I Corps is lead by the 1st Armored Division according the the books OOB, but there is also a glaring contradiction in the following chapters. Read the following:
<<In mid-July, the Italians began to enter southern Germany, and
NATO forces moved to oppose them—primarily the British 1st and
2nd armoured divisions.>>
<<As August arrived, BAOR was forced to switch to the defensive.
Soviet forces were attempting to relieve Warsaw, and NATO forces
to the north and south of BAOR's theater were conducting mobile
defensive withdrawals. On 15 September, the Soviet 7th Guards
Tank Army broke through to Warsaw. First Corps began a fierce
withdrawal action in a desperate attempt to stop the Soviets, but
it was too heavily outnumbered and was pushed back. By the end
of September, NATO began to use tactical nuclear weapons to
stop the Soviets The Soviets replied by using their own nuclear
weapons.>>
The official canon really screws up here because in roughly a months time they are trying to say that the 1st Armored goes from North of Warsaw to Southern Germany and then back to North of Warsaw. I see the 1st Armored staying North of Warsaw and some other unit joining the 2nd Armored Division going to handle the Italians.
Of Note; The German 1st Army of which I Corps of the BOAR is attached seems to have stayed in the region between the Baltic Coast and Warsaw through much of 1997. Elblarg was probably destroyed in the nuclear exchange when the Soviets pushed the Allies out of Poland late in the year.
Food for thought and discussion!
