Editing Angelo van Noord (section)

=== Abwehr service and the Netherlands ===
At the end of March 1940, van Noord left his reconnaissance unit while it was positioned in the Eifel and transferred to the ''Abwehr''. He arrived at a secret training camp near Asperden on 29 March and received command of 4./Baulehr-Bataillon z.b.V. 800.

The company consisted of three large platoons. Its assignment was to seize Dutch bridges over the Maas and the Maas–Waal Canal before Dutch forces could demolish them. The platoons were divided into groups of approximately eight German soldiers accompanied by Dutch volunteers. Some groups approached their targets while disguised as civilians or railway workers, while others wore forged Dutch military uniforms. The volunteers had often lived or worked in Germany and were recruited through the NSB-linked organization known as Sport en Spel.

During the early hours of 10 May 1940, the groups crossed the Dutch border and moved toward bridges in North Brabant and Limburg. Van Noord personally led the assault on the railway bridge at Gennep. [[Martin Paap (father)|Martin Paap I]] served as an ''Unteroffizier'' in the same company.<ref name="bridge-operations"/><ref name="western-europe"/>

Van Noord received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and Iron Cross 1st Class for the operation. On 24 June 1940, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He sustained a head injury during the fighting and was briefly treated at a hospital in Bedburg-Hau, near Kleve.