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| Keywords: Destroyed Walcheren seawall at Westkapelle 1944.jpg Aerial photograph taken shortly after the daylight attack on the sea-wall at Westkapelle Walcheren the Netherlands showing a breach in the wall at the most westerly tip of the island The Allies decided that the dykes had to be breached before the Allied assault in order to flood the inland areas and restrict movement by the German defenders On 3 October 1944 252 Avro Lancasters and seven De Havilland Mosquitoes of the RAF Bomber Command attacked the sea wall and dykes at Westkapelle Flushing and Veere C 4668 205023407 1 128698 1944-10 Royal Air Force official photographer Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia Westkapelle Walcheren World War II in October 1944 World War II aerial photographs of the Netherlands Black and white photographs Collections of the Imperial War Museum Inundation of Walcheren | ||||
