Dutch Mortar team in action, 1940 ( The lucky timing of the shot is fantastic, with the shell leaving the muzzle )
taken from fb/Soldiers of WW2

Mortar crew in action

A Dutch Army officer (far right) oversees Dutch soldiers fitting a tree with explosive charges in order to clear the firing line of a fort on the Stelling van Amsterdam (Defense Line of Amsterdam); a 135 km (83 miles) long ring of fortifications around the city of Amsterdam. With war already declared between the British, French and Germans, the Dutch began mobilizing their forces on 28 August 1939. Despite its policy of neutrality, the Netherlands was invaded on the morning of 10 May 1940, without a formal declaration of war, by German forces moving simultaneously into Belgium and Luxembourg. After five days of intense fighting, the Dutch officially surrendered to Germany on 15 May 1940. Near Amsterdam, Netherlands. Autumn 1939.

 Image and info sourced from BATRAC International
taken from fb/The France and Flanders Campaign 1940

Demolition work


Battle of Sutjeska diary

06.06.1943

The UK War Department informed its government that it had information that the Chetniks in Herzegovina and Montenegro had been compromised by co-operating with the occupier and that well-organized partisans were fighting the Axis forces during the recent fighting in the Montenegrin-Herzegovinian area (Battle of Sutjeska).

The Supreme Staff of the National Liberation Army ordered the South Group Headquarters to suspend the transfer of the 3rd Shock and the 7th Division of the NOVJ to the left bank of the Piva River and to move the immovable wounded to Mount Durmitor and the Piva Valley, and with the lightly wounded crossed the Tara River and the Ljubišnja Mountains.

Through the improvised bridge at the village of G. Krushevo, where they suffered great losses from German aviation, the units of the 7th Division of the NOVJ switched to the left bank of the Piva River and soon rushed to Vucevo.

Germany 7. SS Division -Princ Eugen- pushed the 7th Krajina and 10th Herzegovinian Brigade of the 3rd Shock Division of NOVJ to the village of Tjentiste and the northern slopes of Maglic and occupied the village of Mratinje and the mountain Maglić.

Photo: Unit of the 1st Proletarian Brigade on a short break at Vucevo during the Battle of Sutjeska.
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