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On 1 Nov '44 the Allies deployed the Land Mattress operationally for the first time, bombarding a German Flak battery at Zwanenburg during the assault on Flushing. German PoWs reported it "provoked an immediate tendency to assume the horizontal position". 🎥 IWM A70 237-2 & 3

Which Zwanenburg is that? I only know a village called Zwanenburg near Amsterdam, 100 km away from Flushing. Or do you mean Middelburg, capital of Zeeland province and very near Flushing?