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The German invasion of the Netherlands (Dutch: Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Dutch: Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign, part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
Despite the bridge's age and the heavy traffic on it at the time of its collapse, the load it was carrying was found to be within its normal capacity; [8] and the location where the failure occurred was at less than half the maximum "live" load it was designed to handle when the collapse began. [6]: 98
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
Collapsed after a 10-ton truck crossed the bridge, which had a 5-ton limit. Old bridge remains at bottom of river. [33] Heron Road Bridge: Ottawa: Canada 10 August 1966: Concrete road bridge Collapsed during construction due to use of green lumber and the lack of diagonal bracing on the wooden support forms for concrete pour. 9 killed Rebuilt.
A bunker of the Peel-Raam Line, built in 1939. The Dutch colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) caused the Netherlands to be one of the top five oil producers in the world at the time and to have the world's largest aircraft factory in the Interbellum (Fokker), which aided the neutrality of the Netherlands and the success of its arms dealings in the First World War.
Many braces and counter-braces had fallen out of position before the bridge collapsed, something inspectors either did not notice or the railroad did not repair. The committee found no defects in materials, and rejected the idea that application of the air brakes by the second locomotive caused the bridge to collapse.
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Of the soldiers who entered the Netherlands on purpose or by mistake, 33,105 were Belgians, 1,751 British, 1,461 Germans, 8 French and 4 Americans. Among the prisoners were pilots who had flown into Dutch airspace and crashed. [34] Most Belgian and British internees had fled to the Netherlands after the fall of Antwerp in 1914.