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Old 03-16-2018, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Olefin View Post
Thats where the French invasion may have done them in - either by having tank storage or repair areas overrun during the invasion or by the fact that they would have already been weakened by the fighting in Germany and then basically faced fully equipped and unbloodied and fresh Belgian and French forces

If you look they really fought hard - some of the French and Belgian formations in the NATO books are missing a LOT of tanks - meaning that the Netherlands may have lost all the ones they had but the French and Belgians didnt get away scot free doing it
But the NATO book also said that by 1999 some of the AIFV the Netherlands Army still where fielding where deployed near the Rhine, so i find it strange that not a couple of dozen Leopard II where being fielded somewhere in the North of the Netherlands as a strategic reserve in case the French decided to breach the 50km deep free fire zone also known as the “La Zone Morte“ (English: Death Zone) separating French occupied Netherlands from on-occupied Netherlands
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