Boyd Travers

Corporal Boyd Travers is the main fictional character in the popular video game Medal of Honor Airborne. Travers is a member of the 82nd Airborne Division in the United States Army during World War II. Medal of Honor is an award winning video game franchise.

Levels

Operation Husky

Operation Husky took place on July 10, 1943 in Adanti, Sicily, Italy. Travers and his American allies drop in and must destroy 4 enemy AA emplacements in the town of Adanti while fighting Italian Blackshirt soldiers. They are placed at the Northeast Gate, an area called Hill Houses, and two placed on the top of the Mayor's residence that was changed to an enemy command post.After destroying all 4 enemy guns, Travers must assemble with Sargeant Setzer and his men and locate an ally sniper team. Once Boyd has sniped the German officer, he must then repel the enemy counterattack and make his way back to the Mayor's residence where he has to eliminate 3 German officers.

Operation Avalanche

The invasion of mainland Italy, where Travers is inserted into an operation near the Greek ruins of Paestum, which was used by the Axis as a staging area to counterattack the advancing Allies from the beaches of Salerno.

Operation Neptune

The 82nd Airborne is then airdropped into France during the morning hours of June 6, 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, in which Travers is part of the paratrooper force dropped inland the night before the Normandy beach invasion to clear the infantry's path into France. The player is able to see the Utah Beach landings while in the air.

Operation Market Garden

Travers then drops into the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden (the largest airborne drop in history consisting of 35,000 allied soldiers), General Montgomery's failed plan to secure routes through Holland enabling a push into Germany. Largely featured is the partly destroyed city of Nijmegen and the attempt to secure the bridge over the Waal River for the Allies. Travers is promoted to the rank of corporal at the end of the mission.

Operation Varsity

Operation Varsity, which sees Travers parachuting alongside 30,000 soldiers into Germany.

Operation Der Flakturm

The final level of the game brings a fictional mission made to be the biggest opposition to a paratrooper. It depicts a combat jump over a Flak Tower in Essen, Germany. Along the way Travers must face several "super-soldier" like enemies, the Nazi Storm Elite. The elites wear gas masks for no apparent reason other than to look menacing, and carry a MG42, which almost never happened in the real war. It its much harder to kill an elite than a regular german soldier, as it takes either two head shots dead on, three rocket launcher shots, and two or three Gammon grenades. However they do not run, as they just walk slow. Two Elites also appear in the fifth level, Operation Varsity.

upporting Characters

Colonel Scott Webb, Sergeant Setzer, Sergeant Dane, General Clark, Corporal Kish, Private Wirth