{"id":6150,"date":"2016-10-04T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2016-10-04T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:05:22","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-2-8-october-1944-dam-buster-style-raid-against-the-seawall-at-walcheren-in-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6150","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 2–8 October 1944: Dam-buster style raid against the seawall at Walcheren in Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Breach in the seawall at Walcheren Island, the Netherlands [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 3 October 1944,\u00a0the RAF successfully attacked the seawall on the Dutch island of Walcheren. Aircraft dropped the same kind of \u2018Barnes Wallis\u2019 bombs that had been used by the Dam Buster squadron<\/a> to\u00a0breach German dams in May 1943.<\/p>\n

A 100-yard stretch of dyke was destroyed and the ocean flooded\u00a0onto Walcheren\u00a0to cover much of the island.<\/p>\n

The attack was a prelude to a British amphibious assault aimed at clearing the Germans from the island and silencing the heavy guns that commanded the Scheldt Estuary and the approach to Antwerp.<\/p>\n

The port of Antwerp would be essential for landing supplies for the Allied troops advancing\u00a0into Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week in the war, on 3 October 1944,\u00a0the RAF successfully attacked the seawall on the Dutch island of Walcheren. Aircraft dropped the same kind of \u2018Barnes Wallis\u2019 bombs that had been used by the Dam Buster squadron to\u00a0breach German … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[866,1032,1033,1031],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-dam-busters","tag-holland","tag-the-netherlands","tag-walcheren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}