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A Call of Duty / Call of Duty United Offensive mapper with 8 years of experience. Working for United Fronts mod.
nijmegen progress 8th may 2017
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More debris is needed on the streets. City is about halfway done, all buildings in which you can enter are done.
I'm amazed how quickly I did this, that was only a month and a half of development.
Why not make some references to the Dutch Resistance?
I have to build 3 more maps, so I might add those guys from trainbridge in one of them.
And as for this map, I might add cutted wires at the bridge. There is a belief that a member of the resistance named Jan van Hoof cutted them night before the attack.
Jan van Hoof in particular joined the resistance. Shortly after the start of the occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis, he became a member of a Rover crew and in the spring of 1943 he was secretly installed as full Rover Scout. During the occupation he made observations and drawings of his environment, especially the Waal Bridges. With the coming of the Allies during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 he used his expertise by guiding the Allies through the city of Nijmegen.[1]
It was said that he disarmed the explosives that were attached to the Waal Bridge during the fighting, though no-one saw him do it. After this heroic deed he went home and told his sister 'the bridge is saved'; then he returned to the American unit and resumed guiding them through the city.
Enquiries after the war could not positively identify Van Hoof as the individual who cut the wires to the bridge, however circumstancial evidence backs up the claim and when the Germans eventually tried to blow the bridge, just before its capture, their attempts failed. (from Jan van Hoof's wikipedia page