Word: hoofdplaat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...
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