The Dyle plan or Plan D was the plan of the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, to defeat a German attempt to invade France through Belgium. The Dyle river is 86 km
Western Front campaign, 1940
1939 poster from the Ministry of Armament, "With your scrap we shall forge the steel of victory!"
The Rhineland as defined by the Treaty of Versailles, part contiguous with the Belgian frontier.
German Panzer IV (photographed on 22 June 1940)
Battle of Hannut
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The Battle of Hannut was a Second World War battle fought during the Battle of Belgium which took place between 12 and 14 May 1940 at Hannut in Belgium. It was the largest tank battle in the campaign.
General Hoepner commanded Army Corps XVI at the Battle of Hannut and the Gembloux gap offensive
SOMUA S35 at the Bovington Tank Museum. It outmatched the Panzer I to IIIs in terms of armour and firepower.