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Team Yankee is a novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle whose subject is the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the United States Army in the World War III scenario as depicted by General Sir John Hackett in his novel, The Third World War.

The novel achieved best-selling status and became a series of comic books, an Origins Award-winning board wargame and later a video game.

The Novel

Team Yankee is an armor-heavy company-sized unit (a "team" in Army parlance). It has 13 M1A1 Abrams tanks, several M113 armored personnel carriers, and Dragon antitank missiles. It is composed of: First Platoon (LT Weiss), Mech Platoon (SSG Polgar), and Third Platoon (2LT Gerry Garger). Captain Sean Bannon is company commander. It is part of Task Force 3-78 Mechanized Infantry, commanded by Colonel Reynolds. TF 3-78 is formed from the First Battalion, 78th Infantry.

The task force is composed of: Team Yankee, B Company, C Company (Captain Craven), and another armor-heavy Team. There is an artillery support team (a FIST) attached.

Prologue

Chapter 1: Stand-To

The novel begins with Team Yankee deployed forward towards the frontier with the German Democratic Republic. Captain Sean Bannon is awakened by a radio check from his Third Platoon Leader, Second Lieutenant Gerry Garger--the third straight day Garger has used his radio to break radio silence. Unable to go back to sleep, Bannon inspects his unit and meets the other principal characters of the novel. He finds Garger, chews him out, and decides that with a war coming on, Garger would need to be replaced as a liability.

Meanwhile, at the Army post, Pat Bannon, Sean's wife, understands that the possibility of war is high, and prepares to evacuate her small children while exercising the informal leadership over the other Army wives of Team Yankee.

Chapter 2: First Battle

Colonel Reynolds inspects the forward positions of his task force, including Team Yankee, when the war starts. The Soviets push through the armored cavalry screen and attack the team, in dug in positions under cover. Team Yankee repels the Russian attack. To Captain Bannon's pleased surprise, his problem lieutenant is proving to be competent in combat.

Chapter 3: Change of Mission

Pat Bannon, her children, and all the other dependents make it to Rhein-Main Air Base, where they await evacuation. As soon as an aircraft lands and offloads American reinforcements, dependents are loaded on the plane. A Soviet air strike occurs while the dependents wait; Pat and her children must run past civilians killed to make the flight.

Chapter 4: Into the Vaccuum

Chapter 5: Hunter and Hunted

Chapter 6: On The Razor's Edge

Chapter 7: Check and Checkmate

Chapter 8: R and R

Chapter 9: Deep Attack

Chapter 10: Red Dawn

Chapter 11: Counterattack

Chapter 12: "They Came in the Same Old Way"

Chapter 13: To the Saale

Chapter 14: The Day After

Epilogue

Board Game

Link to information about the board game.

Comic Book

Link to information about the comic book.

Video Game

The video game was developed by Oxford Digital Enterprises for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS systems. It was released in 1990 and published by Empire Interactive. The player is able to use well-known tanks such as the M1 Abrams, M2 Bradley, T-72 and T-62.

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