The best dutch defence works in 1940, building started in 1931, haven't been to the museum, yet but will be visiting it this month Kornwerderzand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If the stories are true, my grandad fought somewhere there in 1940 as a sergeant. Well at least, he had 5 cartridges to defend our country against the Germans. After firing them, he escaped capture by swimming to shore through the IJsselmeer.
Same fort I mentioned on Googleearth thread? http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/general/8542-google-earth-ww2-artifacts-other-related-objects-4.html#post126375
The museum was good, at least when I was there in 1990. What makes for a great picture is to see the Dutch PAK aimed from the bunker at the entrance of the narrow dyke. No wonder the Germans couldn't get through. Regards, Marco
My grandad lived at a farm in the 'Wonsstelling', the defensive positions in front of Kornwerderzand.
The fort even gets a mention in the graphic novel that we have. www.annefrank.com: Historical Fiction at The Anne Frank Center USA A Family Secret Illustrated by Eric Heuvel Story by Eric Heuvel, Menno Metselaar, Ruud van der Rol, Hans Groeneweg
Went there on a Monday a couple of weeks ago when Museum shut, bad planning Took these though. Anyone know the story behind the tail-wheel ?
Anything in BITW Owen? Do you know what the aircraft is/was? My immediate thought was a JU52 but it looks too small.
Yeah Andy, I read up on it in ATB BitW. I think , going by a poster on the Afsluitdijk visitor tower that it might be a Lockheed Hudson from later in the war.
Thanks to this thread on ww2f I now know about the Hudson wreckage in my photo. Fortifications on Kornwerderzand. - Page 2 There is wreckage of a Lockheed Hudson on the other side of the bunker, so my best guess would be that the propeller also comes from the same plane. The Hudson FK 790 of 101 Sq. was shot down by german flak over the Ijsselmeer on the night of the 5th/6th july 1944. It was piloted by Flt. Lt. JW Menzies DFC, the crewmembers were FO Kenneth Bunney, Air Gunner Sgt. Eric Eliot and wireless operator Sgt. Dennis Withers. They were on their way to insert a team of dutch members of the BBO, the agents on board the Hudson were Jan Bokma, Peter Kwint, Pleum Verhoef and Johannes Walter.
