Battlefield V: From Narvik to Nijmegen

The Battlefield V prologue opens with a British paratrooper on a night raid at Narvik Docks in 1940. The real Battles of Narvik ran from 9 April to 8 June 1940, and the fight was over the port itself: Narvik gave an ice-free harbour in the North Atlantic for iron ore brought by rail from Kiruna in Sweden.

Precisión del lugar: The game names the docks but not an exact spot; the pin marks Narvik town.

Next the prologue hands you tank commander Peter Muller, tasked with breaking Allied lines at Tobruk during the Siege of Tobruk. The real siege took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, with an Allied force besieged in the port. Its tenacious defenders quickly became known as the Rats of Tobruk.

Precisión del lugar: The game gives no exact spot at Tobruk; the pin marks the port town.

In the prologue you play a Free French sniper around the Kasserine Pass, in an ambush that ends under a strafing run. The pass is a 2-mile-wide gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains in west central Tunisia, and the real battle there took place from 19 to 24 February 1943.

Precisión del lugar: The game doesn't name an exact spot; the pin marks Kasserine, near the pass.

The "Nordlys" war story is set in spring 1943 in Rjukan, Norway, where resistance fighter Astrid and her daughter Solveig sabotage a facility producing heavy water for Germany's nuclear research program, though much of the heavy water is evacuated by truck. The real Vemork plant near Rjukan was the target of Norwegian heavy water sabotage operations, and in 1988 the power station became the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum.

Precisión del lugar: The game's facility is set in Rjukan without naming Vemork; the pin marks the real plant.

Para el visitante: Vemork is now the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum.

The prologue ends with a British machine gunner making a last stand at the Nijmegen railway bridge in 1944, during Operation Market Garden, until a V1 flying bomb detonates on the position. The real bridge is a truss bridge spanning the River Waal and was a key Allied objective. German frogmen demolished it on 28 September 1944.