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5th November 1944: Walcheren Island, deliberately flooded by the Allies, is a difficult battlefield - but the Allies have amphibious vehicles

Low-level vertical aerial photograph taken shortly after the daylight attack on the sea-wall of Walcheren Island, Holland, showing a breach in the wall at the most westerly tip of the island, caused by the extremely accurate bombing, being widened by the incoming high tide and inundating the village of Westkapelle (top right)