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Posted Saturday, May 11, 2024
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On This Day in History - May 10, 1940
May 10, 1940 #OTD World War II: Battle of the Netherlands, begins. On the morning of 10 May 1940 the Dutch awoke to the sound of aircraft engines roaring in the sky. Germany had commenced Operation Fall Gelb and attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg, in the case of the Low Countries without a declaration of war given before hostilities; France was already at war. Pictured: German paratroops dropping into the Netherlands on 10 May 1940.
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