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The Dutch military hastily scrambled its forces to provide an adequate defense. By the time of the Japanese invasion, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ("KNIL") numbered about 85,000 troops while the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force ("ML-KNIL") had 389 planes at its disposal. Nevertheless, despite these efforts, in the three ...
The following is a list of Dutch military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. World War II was a global war that began in 1939 and ended in 1945. On 10 May 1940, Nazi Germany, which aimed to dominate Europe, invaded the Netherlands and occupied the entire country by 17 May. By 12 March 1942 the Dutch ...
The Royal Netherlands Army (Dutch: Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the Staatse Leger was raised making the Dutch standing army one of the oldest in the world.
A bunker of the Peel-Raam Line, built in 1939. The Dutch colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) caused the Netherlands to be one of the top five oil producers in the world at the time and to have the world's largest aircraft factory in the Interbellum (Fokker), which aided the neutrality of the Netherlands and the success of its arms dealings in the First World War.
United States Army in World War II. Washington, DC: Center of Military History. ISBN 978-016001-879-4. Foot, M. R. D. (2012) [1990]. Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations 1940–1945. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-29166-1. Ford, Jack (1996). Allies in a Bind: Australia and the Netherlands East Indies in the Second World War (2nd ed ...
During the Second World War, the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade, later known as the Princess Irene Brigade (Dutch: Prinses Irene Brigade) was a Dutch motorized infantry brigade unit initially formed from approximately 1,500 troops, including a small group guarding German prisoners of war, who arrived in the United Kingdom (UK) in May 1940 following the German invasion of the ...
Entry of the two divisions of the 1st Canadian Army Corps in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam. [6] General Kruis, Chief of Staff Military Authority, arrives in The Hague. [6] An Allied vanguard arrives in Oslo. Second 'general' German capitulation in Berlin. [6] 13 May: German deserter execution; 16 May: Dissolution of the College of Trusted ...
The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force (Dutch: Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger, ML-KNIL) was the air arm of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) from 1939 until 1950. It was an entirely separate organisation from the Royal Netherlands Air Force.