In the still occupied part of the Netherlands about 8000 german soldiers are being deployed towards Rotterdam and Schiedam (these two city's have a comon border) and are surrounding a large section of these city's. Tomorrow morning they'll start the so called Razzia of Rotterdam. The aim is to captu...

On the 8th of November the last pockets of resistance are silenced and the complete island of Walcheren is taken by Canadian forces. This opens the way for allied forces to start cleaning the Westerschelde from obstacles and mines. It will take some time to complete this but on the 28th the first co...

The allies have made several amphibious landings on different parts of Walcheren and are slowly but surely taking ground, in spite of stuborn german resistance. The defeat is inevetable but german moral is unbroken. On other places in the Southern parts of the Netherlands village after village is sl...

Since October 24 th, allied troops are attacking across the Zuid-Beveland peninsula. They are approaching the canal which is heavely fortified and promises to be a formidable hurdle. The decision is made to make two amphibious attacks , further West and bypassing the canal, thus splitting the german...

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Canadian forces have taken Woensdrecht en Hoogerheide, two villages which guarded the entrence to the Zuid-Beveland peninsula. During the fighting both villages are virtually destroyed. The fight for Zuid-Beveland and the Island of Walcheren ( which are connected via a dam) prommises to become a nig...

Canadian troops are still attacking on the northern banks of the Westerschelde river. Progress on the heavely defended, inundated terrain is painfully slow and costely. Today , Oktober 13 th , is a particularly sad day. The Black Watch, a batalion of the Canadian 5th infantry brigade took so much lo...

In the last couple of weeks the main focus of the allies has shifted from the battle of Arnhem to freeing the Westerschelde from german occupation, thus making the Port of Antwerp usable. Several actions have been going on , amongst those: bombing the so called " Breskens pocket". This was...