Moerdijk, May 1940: A Photo Chronicle

[101combatvet]

They are packed into that plane like sardines. It's interesting how they commandeered everything, the car, wagon, horse, bicycle, and Holstein.

[Eric Queen]

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[unglesbeemj]

Great images Eric, as you say really puts you on the battlefield. Especially like the closeups of the bridge - Cord Tietjen had a lot of distance to cover in short time (under fire) to remove the explosives. Thanks for posting.

[Eric Queen]

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[Eric Queen]

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[Remco]

I think that you can see the smoke in the distance of the attack on the airport Waalhaven in Rotterdam. Again very unique pictures .

[Eric Queen]

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[Eric Queen]

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[Eric Queen]

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[Eric Queen]

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[HAF]

never seen better fotos from Holland front ,spectacular thanks a lot for this thread

[Sergey K.]

Nice collection. Interesting to see the almost completely worn or scratched off helmet decals already, in the bottom picture of post 4 too.

Agree, also noticed this as well as some great looking mud camo helmets . A lot of interesting early uniform details... Thanks for showing, Eric.

[dragnet]

A great set of detailed photos, thanks for posting Eric, and the icing on the cake is the the photos of camo application on there helmets with wet mud, classic

[dragnet]

As I love lids it's nice to see the rubber banding being used , but more interesting to me are the couple of helmets having a type of cage on there helmets and it's not wire, maybe a webbing of sorts, perhaps leather must have been cobbled together well before the drop
p.s. just had another look and it looks like a sort of elastic with hooks for attachment to the rim.