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  Terrain Challenge: Terrain Challenge #15 (Solved!)
Posted on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:52 am by webmaster
Terrain Challenge

Submitted by Lestayo. Hint - WWII



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Re: Terrain Challenge #15 (Score: 1)
by mooxe on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:53 am
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Just a wild guess. Monument next to canal. Something from Market Garden.




Re: Terrain Challenge #15 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:02 pm
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I got it! Fortress Eben-Emael


Eben-Emael was a Belgian fortress between Liège and Maastricht, near the Albert Canal, defending the Belgian-German border. Constructed in 1931–1935, it was reputed to be impregnable. But on 10 May 1940, 78 paratroopers of the German 7th Flieger (later 1st Fallschirmjäger Division) landed on the fortress with gliders (type DFS 230). One day later, they were reinforced by the German 151st Infantry Regiment. At 13:30 h on 11 May, the fortress surrendered. 1200 Belgian soldiers were captured.

Eben-Emael, an underground fort, was Belgium's hope to defend its eastern borders from invasion, charged with defending or destroying three key bridges. It also gave protection to the south of what was called the Gap of Vise. A fortress to protect this approach to Liège had been conceived in the latter 19th century, but only became politically convincing after the Albert Canal was dug (to provide a route for Belgian river transport that did not require entering Dutch territory). Thus the fortress was only completed in 1935, being sited between the river and the canal that bypassed it. With its steel and concrete cupolas, Fort Eben-Emael was thought to be impenetrable.




Re: Terrain Challenge #15 (Score: 1)
by Lestayo on Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:10 pm
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Good Hunt, Senior Drill!!!

In the plan for the German attack in the west Hitler gave his backing for General von Manstein's plan which called for am armoured thrust through the Ardennes as this would surprise the Allies - they would have been led to believe that the main German attack would be through Holland, basically the 1914 Schliefen Plan. Manstein's plan relied on the right flank of the panzer attack being covered by the infantry of the 6th Army. This army would need to cross the Albert Canal and in their way, defending the bridges over the canal was the Belgian fortress complex at Eben Emael. Koch's 500 man Assault Battalion would be assigned to take Eben Emael and following that, airborne forces would be dropped on targets around Rotterdam. The whole timing of the German attack in the west was dependent on this relatively little known airborne assault. The German army would not begin its general assault until 5 minutes after the assault gliders landed, and the airborne operations in Holland would be timed for 30 minutes after those landings.




Re: Terrain Challenge #15 (Score: 1)
by Senior_Drill on Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:42 am
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This was actually a good challenge! Like Mooxe, I was thinking it to be farther north in the Market Garden area of in Holland. As I studied the photo, I kept thinking that is seemed like the ruins of an old fort because of the angles, though it does not have a Vauban style symmetry. Perhaps it was the remains of a 16th or 17th century fortress, but those spots looked like bunkers or casements......

The words "fort", "fortress", "bunkers" and "canal" kept running through my mind. On a hunch, I googled Eban Emael and Bingo! The real clue came from the canal. I believe it would be fair in such a challange to photoshop the picture to black out certain identifying features.

If I had proposed this location, I would have cut out the entire canal and only supplied the missing piece as a 4th or 5th day clue.

Would that be fair? What do others think?




Re: Terrain Challenge #15 (Solved!) (Score: 1)
by Lestayo10 on Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:11 pm
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http://wn.com/WW2__The_fall_of_Eben_Emael;_Battle_of_Belgium_1940

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