Norton Enclosure Escape

The Norton Enclosure Escape was a mass prisoner of war breakout in late orchestrated by the Gilgamesh Free State. With most prisoners having been shipped off-world for unknown purposes. In dire need of new personnel, the Gilgamesh Underground State created a plan to break prisoners of war out of the POW enclosure near the settlement of Norton. The plan called for two stages. The first was to utilize operators from the Gilgameshan Special Air Service to break out Major General George Zibrovich, commander of the 6th Infantry Division, and a group of other company-grade officers in order to divert attention to the manhunt. Soon afterward, units of the Underground State's resistance would strike the enclosure, freeing the rest of the prisoners.
The plan went off almost without a hitch initially, with Zibrovich and several other GFS officers escaping aboard a Gilgamesh Free Air Force UH-144 Falcon that had survived the UNSC-GFS War. The manhunt that began, as expected, diverted large amounts of resources to recapturing Zibrovich, and the subsequent raid on the enclosure allowed almost all of the prisoners to escape. The UNSC then diverted their attention to the larger amount of escapees, recapturing about a quarter of them. The remainder joined up with the forces of the Underground State, providing it a new infusion of trained and battle-experienced officers to lead the resistance fighters.
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