Breaking the Hindenburg Line by J P Beadle (B) PER53 before setting up Caleb Ralph

before setting up Caleb Ralph who at speed scored the winning try which was converted by Duncan Hodge making the final score 14 - 10

HMS Norfolk and HMS Belfast of Force I are shown engaging the Scharnhorst which has already been hit and disabled by both HMS Duke of York and the cruiser HMS Jamaica

Leningrad 17th February 1943

as they nurse their battle scarred B-17G back to their base at Kimbolton

take part in the second operation designed and led by Graf von Strachwitz (Grossdeutschland Division) to destroy half of the dangerous Soviet bridgehead across the Narva river

Breaking the Hindenburg Line by J P Beadle (B) PER53 before setting up Caleb RalphDHM243. Breaking the Hindenburg Line by J. P. Beadle. The Hindenburg Line known also as the Siegfried Line was a vast system of German defences in northeastern France between Lens and past Verdun. Built over the winter of 1916 and 1917, the high command in Germany believed the Hindenburg line was was impregnable. But in 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai it was temporarily broken by the British and Newfoundland troops. Included in these forces were