Rabu, 15 Maret 2017

What We Learned from Fort Eben-Emael, 1940

According to one source it was Adolf Hitler himself who first floated the idea for an aerial assault on the lynchpin of Belgium’s frontline defenses. “I have read something of your work with gliders,” he told General Kurt Student, commander of Germany’s first paratroop division. “I think some of your attack gliders could land on …

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