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The Forgotten Battle (Dutch: De Slag om de Schelde) is a 2020 Dutch war drama film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier played by Gijs Blom, a British glider pilot played by Jamie Flatters, and a resistance woman from Zeeland played by Susan Radder.
By the autumn of 1944, captured ports like Cherbourg were far away from the front line, stretching Allied supply lines and causing great logistical problems. Antwerp is a deep-water inland port close to Germany. It is connected to the North Sea via the river Scheldt, which allows the passage of ocean-going ships. [3]
It opened in 1935 and was designed by Leon Stynen, a Belgian architect, modeled after large American movie theatres. [1] On 16 December 1944 (the first day of the Ardennes Offensive), at 15:20, a V-2 rocket fired from The Netherlands (Hellendoorn) by the SS Werfer Battery 500 directly landed on the roof of the cinema during a showing of The ...
Cast Genre Notes The 957th Day: Propaganda short: produced by the US Navy: Attack! Battle of New Britain: Propaganda short: The Barber of Seville: James Culhane: Animated short: Lantz, Universal: The Battle of China: Frank Capra: War propaganda: The Bodyguard: Hanna-Barbera: Tom and Jerry: Animated short: MGM: Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ...
Operation Infatuate was the code name given to an Anglo-Canadian operation in November 1944 during the Second World War to open the port of Antwerp to shipping and relieve logistical constraints. The operation was part of the wider Battle of the Scheldt and involved two assault landings from the sea by the 4th Special Service Brigade and the ...
Battle for Antwerp: the liberation of the city and the opening of the Scheldt, 1944. I. Allan. ISBN 9780711007697. Oliver, Dennis (2018). Death Ride of the Panzers: German Armor and the Retreat in the West, 1944–45. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781510720961. Renouf, Tom (2011).
1944 is a 2015 Estonian war drama film directed by Elmo Nüganen. The film first premiered in February 2015 in Berlin, Germany, before its release in Estonia [4] and other Northern European countries. It was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. [5]
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