Memorial Train Sabotage June 1944

The war memorial in Hamont-Achel (Belgium), located near Short Stirling crash site, Witteberg, Hamont-Achel.

It recalls a train sabotage in the night of 9 to 10 June 1944. In order to prevent German train transports after the successful landing of Normandy, the resistance movement "The Secret Army" was ordered to blow up railway bridges and sabotage railway lines throughout the country . On the night of June 9, resistance fighters at the level crossing on the Witteberg unscrewed the bolts of two rails, causing the locomotive, tender and wagons of a German train transport to run off the rails.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Mart Janssen
• https://www.internetgazet.be/hamont-achel/monument-herinnert-aan-treinsabotage.aspx