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In August 1941, Private Lucas Riggs was stationed in Tobruk, Libya, as part of the Australian-led Tobruk Rats garrison. After a failed ambush attempt against the Italian Royal Army and the Africa Korps, Riggs is tasked with recovering supplies for the British Army, alongside fellow Rat Private Desmond "Des" Wilmot and British Lieutenant Robert Jacobs. Riggs, Des and Jacobs manage to find intelligence relating to General Erwin Rommel and destroy a German depot in the process, but they are arrested by Major Henry Hamms for insubordination. In 1942, during the Battle of El Alamein, Hamms ordered Riggs and the Rats to form a defensive line, but Riggs disobeyed the order and attempted to retake a hill and call in bomber support with Des supporting him. Both succeed but Des is killed in battle. Angered by the disregard for the Rats' contribution to the fight, Riggs punches Hamms out of frustration, exposing him to prison time. In June 1942, U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Wade Jackson participated in the Battle of Midway alongside his tail gunner, Aviation Machinist Mateo Hernandez. In November 1943, while attacking the Imperial Japanese Army on Bougainville, Jackson and Hernandez's plane was shot down and the two were captured by IJN and IJA soldiers. They are rescued by the 93rd Infantry Division, who later help them acquire an Aichi D3A from the Imperial Japanese Navy to help the division reconquer the island. In August 1942, Polina Petrova, a Red Army doctor, witnessed the Luftwaffe's invasion of Stalingrad. She fails to save her father Boris from execution by a Fallschirmager squad, but manages to escape with her brother Misha and several Soviet partisans. Petrol eventually acquires the nickname "Lady Nightingale" as she pursues Leo Steiner, the Wehrmacht commander responsible for the invasion. In January 1943, Petrova and Misha attempted to assassinate Steiner in Stalingrad, but Misha was seriously injured. He sacrifices himself to give Petrova time to escape. Petrova eventually confronts Steiner and kills him and his personal army, inspiring the citizens of Stalingrad to retake the city from the Heer. She then sets her sights on Steiner's superior, Hermann Freisinger. In June 1944, British Parachute Sergeant Arthur Kingsley took part in Operation Tonga, where he and the Parachute Regiment helped destroy the Melville Gun Battery and several other bridges to help Allied forces invade Normandy. Kingsley befriends fellow paratrooper Sergeant Richard Webb, who later becomes Kingsley's right-hand man. Kingsley, Webb, Petrova, Jackson, and Riggs, alongside a sixth soldier named Milos Novak, would eventually be recruited by Captain Carver Butcher to form the first special operations task force, callsign Vanguard. Kingsley is named leader of the task force. In April 1945, Task Force Vanguard hijacked a train bound for Hamburg, Germany, in search of intelligence on Project Phoenix, a secret Nazi program led by Freisinger. While infiltrating a Kriegsmarine submarine, the squad is captured by Freisinger's Feldgendarmerie troops, minus Jackson who escaped from them, and Novak who is bludgeoned to death by Freisinger. Vanguard is delivered to the Waffen-SS and Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, where Freisinger appoints officer Jannick Richter to interrogate them. Jackson is also captured after attempting to steal a plane; Richter demoralizes the team by executing Webb. Unaware of the purpose of the Phoenix Project and Freisinger's involvement, Richter attempts to learn more by questioning Petrova and Riggs about Steiner and Rommel's connection to Freisinger. He deduces that the plan was an attempted coup d'état, aimed at appointing Freisinger as the new Furher of the Fourth Reich. With Berlin under siege by the Red Army following Adolf Hitler's suicide, Riggs breaks out of interrogation and frees the team, while Kingsley kills Richter to avenge Webb. Vanguard pursues Freisinger to the airport, where they finally apprehend him and burn him alive. The four then board Freisinger's plane, discovering numerous German documents and assets, revealing Nazi covert operations on a global scale. Kingsley decides to follow through on Project Aggregat, a secret V2 rocket facility, and orders Jackson to go there in pursuit.

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