John Lincoln
Twenty-year-old John Lincoln is a platoon commander with the 1st Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. As part of the British 3rd Division, he and his men are marching along Venrayseweg in Overloon toward Venray.
Twenty-year-old John Lincoln is a platoon commander with the 1st Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. As part of the British 3rd Division, he and his men are advancing along Venrayseweg in Overloon toward Venray. A week earlier, the British had taken over the front line at Overloon from the Americans. Instead of tanks, the British primarily deployed their infantry against the entrenched German troops.
Lincoln’s unit is one of two platoons launching the attack along the Venrayseweg. They begin with hea…
Twenty-year-old John Lincoln is a platoon commander with the 1st Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. As part of the British 3rd Division, he and his men are advancing along Venrayseweg in Overloon toward Venray. A week earlier, the British had taken over the front line at Overloon from the Americans. Instead of tanks, the British primarily deployed their infantry against the entrenched German troops.
Lincoln’s unit is one of two platoons launching the attack along the Venrayseweg. They begin with heavy artillery barrages, followed shortly thereafter by the advancing infantry. But persistent rain has turned the area between Overloon and Venray into a quagmire. The German Schminnes are barely visible, and many British soldiers are left behind on the battlefield, wounded. The capture of the area, with the Loobeek as the deadliest obstacle, takes three days. The British are exposed in the open field and are the target of German artillery, machine guns, and snipers. Of the 30 men in Lincoln’s platoon, only 12 remain unharmed, including himself. But the senseless death all around him deeply affects him.
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