Steenbergen

Steenbergen is a municipality and a city in the province of North Brabant within the south of the Netherlands. The municipality had a populace of 24,815 in 2017 and covers an area of 159.14 km2 of which 12.Forty eight km2 is water. The municipality is specifically agricultural in conjunction with a strongly developing greenhouse area, however Steenbergen and the close by metropolis of Dinteloord moreover incorporate a few light enterprise. A new stretch of A4 motorway below introduction is anticipated to further growth the municipality's beauty, permitting easy connections with the huge towns of Rotterdam to the north and the Belgian metropolis of Antwerp to the south.

The reference to the nearby town of Bergen op Zoom also can be stepped forward as a end result. Guy Gibson, Wing Commander and the primary CO of the RAF's 617 Squadron which he led inside the "Dam Busters" raid in 1943, crashed together along with his Mosquito plane in this municipality. Having back to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 26-12 months-vintage Gibson have become killed alongside collectively along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based totally totally at RAF Coningsby, while his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.