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Posted on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:37 am by webmaster
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Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:18 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hey guys
Mafi gave us a difficult one. Judging from the color's my id say this is north west europe. German Netherlands Belgium or Parts of France...
Cheers Buck |
Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Dima on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:15 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I lean toward Holland too. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Sat Oct 17, 2009 7:49 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Ok guys I got the answer.
What whe are looking at is a forest between Kalkar and Bedburg-Hau
This photo shows a small piece of operation 'Blockbuster' Parts of the candian 2nd Inf Div Moved trough this area.
To be more exact this is the Moyland Woodland. It was heavily defended by the germans. I got this Qoute from a candian website:
"On February 16th, the 7th Brigade met with unexpected opposition near the Moyland Wood, towards Calcar. The infantrymen encountered machine-gun, mortar and shell fire. After a few days of violent combat and high casualties for the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and the Canadian Scottish, the 7th Brigade organized a systematic assault to clear the forest of the remaining enemy. On February 21st, the wood was captured but the six days of fighting cost the division 485 men, killed, wounded or captured."
Cheers Buck |
Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Franzauk on Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:44 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Well Done!
How did you recognize it so quick? |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Mafi on Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:49 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) http://closecombat2.npage.de/ | Hi to all, hello Buck,
congratulations, very fast and absolute correct identification:
Schloß Moyland in the upper centre, today around it the two golf areas. Below the castle is the (today smaller) Moyland-Wald (= Moyland wood), with to main roads between Goch and Kalkar. This place saw haevy figthing during Operation Veritable, February 1945. In 2007, the Moyland castle managed it to be shown on a German stamp.
Battle description for example here:
http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2002/11/clearing-moyland-wood/
Too easy for a WW2-Western front expert!
I think the next image will not so easy... |
Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:08 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I can see why this area was heavily contested ..... three golf courses! ;) |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #10 (Score: 1)
by Buck_Compton on Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:33 pm
(User Info | Send a Message) | Hey Mafi,
This wasn't really western front expertise ;) I just had a look at the photo. Then knowing you are German. I kind of expected this to be western front. not that much major operations in germany after the battle of the buldge ;) so that narrowed the scope very much down ;)
Cheers Buck |
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