Laon

Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.

Laon in The War That Came Early
Laon was the sight of a fierce battle between the Allies and the Germans during the Battle of France in early 1939. The allied high command packed as many French, British, Czechs, Belgian and African Colonial soldiers as they could into the defences and backed them up with motors and artillery and heavy machine guns. This gave the Germans a bloody nose when they twice tried to take the town and failed.