Belgian Infantry Squad WM-1-11-2022 24 January 1941

24 January 1941

From their role in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden to the crossing of the River Rhine and the push into the German homeland these battle-hardened fighting men have been immortalised in film and television

Her ultimate fate was at the hands of a US Submarine (USS Sealion) whilst crossing the Formosa Strait on 21 November 1944

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Gaius Julius Caesar used the Helvetii tribe’s migration as casus belli (cause for war)

Belgian Infantry Squad WM-1-11-2022 24 January 1941Making up the core of the Belgian Army tasked with resisting the inexorable advance of the German Blitzkrieg swarming across France and the Low Countries in 1940, the Belgian Army infantry squad would largely follow the Great War doctrine of static defence. The squad is led by a sergeant carrying an MP 28 submachine gun. The Fusil mitrailleur 1930 (FM 30) Browning light machine gun (more commonly known as the 'Belgian BAR') serves as the squad LMG,