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One of the recon Photos taken from the Spitfire by
Canadian Flight Lieutenant Lightbody.
You can clearly see the shadow of the Spitfire in the bottom right corner of the picture.
A good clear shot of the zig-zag of the German trenches. The idea of this was to limit the damage of an exploding shell in the trench.
If the trench was straight, the blast would travel quite some distance before running out of energy and destructive power.
By using the zig-zag, a blast would be limited to just that section of the trench, the energy being absorbed the wall of the next section.
The Mythbusters tested this in their show. You can watch the show here.
The vertical lines on these photos are due to incorrect developing in the darkroom
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One of the wier and lock (submerged).
BELOW
To assess the scouring damage at Sambeek lock and wier, Lambrechtsen and I went there in December 1944 when it was in no-mans-landand this photo of me was taken. Controll at Sambeek would give control over water levels at our planned bridging site at Gennep the Kilometres downstream.
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Lambrechtsen (on left) and I.
Constan Lambrechtsen was an engineer of the Dutch State Waterways (Rijkswaterstaat)
On being liberated in September 1944, at great risk to himself, he joined the British Army as an expert in 'The Opposed Crossing of Water Obsticles'.
I had the good fortune to assist Constan for the last six months of the war, during which time there were occasions when we in no-mans-land.
Constan was far braver than I. During these missions he knew perfectly well that had we been captured, I would have been made a prisoner of war wheras Constan, as a Dutchman, would have been shot.
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The floating Bailey bridge after the flood waters had subsided.
The location was chosen by Constan Lambrechtsen
as it was the site of a Ferry crossing.
This meant that, as illustrated below, once the flood waters had subsided the ferry roads could be used and only the centre part of the bridge would be required to cross the river itself.
