"The Battle of the Schelde Estuary" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Aug 2022 9:25 p.m. PST |
"Some of you will probably have seen the film "The Battle of the Scheldt Estuary" last year. This Dutch feature film has been available on Netflix since October 2021. The film tells a fictional story set around the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary during World War II. The action is told from the perspective of British pilot William Sinclair, local TeuntjeVisser and Dutchman Marinus van Staveren. William is a pilot who crashes his glider over Zeeland and has to fight his way through the flooded landscape with his squad. Teuntje is drawn into the conflict because her brother is wanted because of a spontaneous attack on the German occupiers. Marinus fights as a volunteer soldier in the German Wehrmacht, where he is deployed first in Russia and later in Zeeland at the Sloedam. While not a masterpiece, the film offers solid entertainment and a glimpse into a theater of war that has been little explored…"
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| BillyNM | 28 Aug 2022 11:08 p.m. PST |
I visited the island and the site of the  breach when touring the battlefield. Unfortunately when I visited the breach site the rain was coming in horizontally off the North Sea and my main interest in the Sherman monument there was the shelter it afforded. |
| Tango01 | 29 Aug 2022 3:42 p.m. PST |
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| BillyNM | 30 Aug 2022 6:54 a.m. PST |
So a flood defence has been confused with a protected characteristic? I despair. |
| Nine pound round | 31 Aug 2022 4:18 a.m. PST |
The algorithm is only as woke as the person writing the code. |
| Tango01 | 31 Aug 2022 4:00 p.m. PST |
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adds a tower to his 15mm trainyard.
