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Well it's more of a family story. My grandfather was around 13 during the war (ww2). We're from a wetland area and he told me he and his friend used to hide from nazis by jumping next to the plank (lined up planks were used as roads), into the water, and breathing through a reed.
Fun fact: Everybody including kids had boats, and sleighs for the winter. Everything happened over water.
Eventually he ended up having to work for them without pay. He had to bike hours every day to get to this landing strip he had to work on for them.
No airplane ever took off there. The allies bombed the living daylights out of it! He also told me he saw dog fighting in the sky and how exciting that was.
Today it's a nature reserve! The countless bomb craters have water in them, and are teeming with life. So I like to think he helped improve the local biodiversity ๐
Can you give the approximate area where that is / was?