Tag: WWII

  • The Raid on Dutch soil

    The Raid on Dutch soil

    Early 1940, The Netherlands was still building their defense against a possible raid from Hitlers Germany. In the middle section of the Eastern border, they build the so called Maaslinie, supported with the “Peel-raamstelling”, a defensive line containing rather small concrete fortifications called “kazematten” from which fixed machinegunfire could be launched upon the enemy approaching.…