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π‘οΈ Resistance & Espionage
The Dutch Spy Who Saved Operation Market Garden
On September 17, 1944, the day Operation Market Garden launched, a Dutch resistance member using the codename "Gε΄rrit" (Gerrit) transmitted the complete German defensive positions in the Netherlands to Allied intelligenc...
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The Fokker Plane That Landed Itself on a Cloud
On March 12, 1940, a Dutch Fokker T-8 twin-engine naval reconnaissance plane, piloted by Lieutenant J.H. Hupkes, encountered a severe thunderstorm over the North Sea while returning from a patrol. As ice built up on the ...