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Re: Terrain Challenge #86 (Score: 1) by Pete on Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:34 pm (User Info | Send a Message)
Very close! You got the location right but not the background story about this particular sector of the Peel-Raam defence line.
The battle at Mill was fought here (http://www.waroverholland.nl/index.php?page=the-battle-at-mill) .http://www.stichtingsporenvandeoorlog.nl/gilaworks/p10pdf/Trein.pdf. The straight line in the center of the image actually used to be a railway track along which a German armored train broke through and which unloaded a battalion of infantry in the rear of the defenses. Upon it's return the train was derailed on the spot where the track crosses the canal and a battle ensued with the train crew and the infantry battalion. Later on Dutch reinforcements joined in the fighting.
The canal was specifically constructed as a defensive canal with casemates of various types strung along with intervals of several hundreds of meters as well as a trenchline.
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