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    The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Dutch: Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger; KNIL, Dutch pronunciation: [knɪl]) (Indonesian: Tentara Kerajaan Hindia...
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    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...
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    The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Women's Corps (Dutch: Vrouwenkorps van het Koninklijk Nederlands(ch)-Indisch Leger, VK-KNIL) was the women's branch...
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    The Royal Netherlands Army (Dutch: Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was...
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    In his roles for NICA he was also appointed colonel in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger, KNIL) and the resident...
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    for the Netherlands. The separate Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger (ML-KNIL; Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Military...
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    The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the...
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    Hein ter Poorten (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals)
    rose up the ranks upon his return to the East Indies, and by July 1939, was the Royal Netherlands Indies Army (KNIL) chief of the general staff. Lieutenant...
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    Rawagede massacre (category Massacres committed by the Netherlands)
    Indonesian: Pembantaian Rawagede), was committed by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army on 9 December 1947 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari...
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    The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory...
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    Simon Spoor (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals)
    1949) was the Chief of Staff of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and the Royal Dutch Army in the Dutch East Indies, from 1946 to 1949, during the Indonesian...
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    married Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, and was immediately given the title Prince of the Netherlands with the style of Royal Highness. Upon his wife's...
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    Dirk Reinhard Adelbert van Langen (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals)
    Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in the Dutch East Indies, from 1946 to 1949, during the Indonesian National Revolution. After attending the Royal Military...
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    Johannes van den Bosch (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals)
    He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1830–1833), commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Minister of Colonies, and Minister of...
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    Johan Köhler (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army officers)
    general in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. Köhler was born in 1818 in Groningen, the son of a sergeant major in the Royal Dutch Army. He enlisted...
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    No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron was a joint Dutch and Australian bomber squadron of World War II. Formed in April 1942, the squadron was staffed...
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    Fort Vastenburg (category Installations of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army)
    Grootmoedigheid was one of a series of defense network set up by the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) to maintain security in the Javanese trade network. The...
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    transferred to the Netherlands East Indies Air Force in 1946 and participated in the Indonesian National Revolution. No. 120 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron...
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    and as the Japanese moved to complete their envelopment of the Netherlands East Indies, Timor was seemingly the next logical target. The 2/40th and most...
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    Belanda Hitam (category People from the Dutch East Indies)
    colonial empire for service in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL), the colonial army of the Dutch East Indies. The recruitment of Black soldiers...
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    December 1915 to form De Nederlandse Padvinders (NPV, The Netherlands Pathfinders). He became the Royal Commissioner of that organisation and he asked Jean...
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    Bovenlanden Expeditions were punitive expeditions by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to Palembang in South Sumatra (1851–1859). 1900. W.A. Terwogt...
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    Free Dutch Forces (category Military units and formations of the Netherlands in World War II)
    the West Indies, the local defense force protected some of the largest oil refineries in the world, while the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL)...
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    Fred van der Poel (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army officers)
    1921, van der Poel joined the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. On 14 February 1925, he left for the Dutch East Indies as second lieutenant in the infantry...
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    Expedition to the West Coast of Borneo (category Punitive expeditions of the Netherlands)
    the West Coast of Borneo was a punitive expedition of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against the Chinese Indonesian independence republic at Pontianak...
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  • M1871 Beaumont (category Military equipment of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army)
    service rifle of the Armed forces of the Netherlands between 1871 and 1895, and by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army into the 1900s. It was one of the first...
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    Gerardus Johannes Berenschot (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army generals)
    Commander-in-Chief of the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army; KNIL). An Indo – as Eurasians of Indonesian and Dutch descent...
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  • South Sulawesi campaign of 1946–1947 (category Massacres committed by the Netherlands)
    controversial Raymond Westerling, a captain in the KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army). Westerling's operation, which started in December 1946 and...
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    Mochammad Idjon Djanbi (category Royal Netherlands East Indies Army officers)
    in 1939 Visser was drafted into the Dutch army. Visser fought during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940. As a conscript sergeant Visser...
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  • List of Dutch military equipment of World War II (category World War II military equipment of the Netherlands)
    the equipment of armed elements centered on Royal Netherlands Army and Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, but not the Free Dutch Forces, which was equipped...
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