The Battle of Baudrecourt occurred in 1944 during World War II when the French Resistance fighter Sean Devlin ambushed a German outpost in rural Lorraine, France.
Following the Battle of Fossieux, Sean Devlin ambushed a small German artillery emplacement at a ruined church in Manonville, killing the three German soldiers stationed there before destroying the artillery piece. Devlin then found a sizable German base at the nearby town of Baudrecourt, where a force of around 10 Waffen-SS soldiers guarded 2 Wehrmacht tanks and 2 artillery pieces at a crossroads 20 miles southeast of Metz. Devlin used a silenced Sten submachine gun to kill several German soldiers before sneaking up on the German panzers, whose crews were relaxing inside of their tanks and unaware of the saboteur's infiltration. Devlin proceeded to plant dynamite on the tanks and blow them up, and he also destroyed the large siege gun and the smaller rocket launcher. With the German base destroyed, Devlin continued on towards the German border, but he was unable to cross into the Saarland and ultimately decided to return to Paris to continue his guerrilla warfare campaign.
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