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On July 2, 2019 By Leander Jobse
The Netherlands/Shell (1929) Armored Car – 2 Built In 1929, Venezuelan revolutionaries performed a successful surprise attack on a Dutch fortress on Curaçao in order to capture the fortress' arsenal. The goal was to use these weapons to overthrow Caudillo Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela. The Dutch governor and the military commander of [...]
Morris 'Koekblikje' Armored Car
On May 21, 2019 By Leander Jobse
The Netherlands (1932 – 40) Armored car – 3 Built During the early 1930s, the Dutch army had two armored cars in service. The first was an Ehrhardt Plattformwagen, confiscated from retreating German troops in 1918 with an improvised armored superstructure. The other vehicle was based on a GMC chassis and was purely meant [...]
Wilton-Fijenoord Armored Car
On December 30, 2017 By Leander Jobse
The Netherlands (1933-45) Armored car – 3 built At the end of the twenties, the Dutch military slowly began to realise the importance of armored vehicles and their off-road capabilities. They developed a tactic that lighter armed armored cars should be used together with infantry to give close support, but the Royal Army [...]
Braat Overvalwagen
On June 29, 2014 By David.B
KNIL (1940) Armored car – 25 built The main KNIL armored car The KNIL (Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger) used far more vehicles than the Homeland Royal Army back in the Netherlands. The territories to defend in the East Indies were much more extended and the Japanese threat all too present. Two models of the Overvalwagen [...]
Pantserwagen M39
Kingdom of the Netherlands (1939) Armored car – 12 built First national armored car In 1936, when a modernization & rearmament program of the Dutch Royal Forces was proposed, Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Izaak H. Reijnders chose to acquire just 36 armored cars, less costly than tanks. At that time, only a few obsolete ex-German [...]