The timeline of the Indonesian National Revolution *MILSURP PICS ADDED*

[fat tony]

This was preceeded by the Allied campaigns Operation Montclair, and Operation Oboe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Indonesian_National_Revolution#1946

An estimate 4,000,000 citizens were killed during the Japanese occupation.

Note that Japanese units were fighting against the Republicans (both for survival, and also to distribute arms and ammunition to Indonesian men - sounds like a highwire act!) until mid December 1945 & note the chaos that ensued in this part of the world in this era!

From what little I have read, the disposition of Japanese military units in the Dutch East Indies from August 1945 until their evacuation from the Dutch East Indies in mid December 1945 is not clear.

European colonialism died hard.

It must have taken some time to sort out who did what to whom and when.

It seems that the Indonesians were using anything they could get their hands on. Those with a former Japanese service rifle were among the lucky.

Republicans armed with mostly bamboo shafts with a couple (the only?) rifles in the picture.

Column of Dutch troops.

Indian soldier examines a captured Republican tank (Marmon - Herrington?)

Dutch troops, 1948. Mixture of equipment.

http://verouden.pijnackerweb.nl/homepage/show/240067.jpg

Dutch troops with M1 Helmets, Camouflage coveralls and Owen SMGs

http://aryanarendra.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/knil4.jpg

M95 rifle converted to .303 British. There was lots of 11th hour "making do" around this era throughout the world.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/dutchmosin/Geweer M95/M95_in_77_cpl.jpg

^This last pic belongs to a Dutch researcher. If he is upset about linking it here, it can be removed. It is reproduced here in accordance with fair use policy (only for educational purposes).

Here is a 1944 pic of the visit of the Dutch Royal delegation to Longbranch arsenal in 1944. One wonders if they were working on gathering war materials for the upcoming post WWII colonial war in the Dutch East Indies. This pic was posted by Cantom on milsurps.com and was previously posted by 6167 on CGN.

http://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2011/12/DutchRoyalVisitLB-1.jpg

During the 1970s there were a number of serious terrorist attacks by Malakan exiles in The Netherlands.

Interestingly, The Netherlands still has a 70 year old hangover from these historical events. Nine survivors of a massacre by Dutch troops during these chaotic events successfully sued the Dutch Government for compensation. The court granted each survivor $20,000 Euros, or the equivalent of $27,000 US. According to info I perused, the determination of the payment schedules was still ongoing as of 2011 in this case.

 

[eos]

Japanese Type 38 rifles in the first pic and a variant of the Dutch CTMS 1T in the lower pic.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

An estimate 4,000,000 citizens were killed during the Japanese occupation.

When the Japanese emperor made the surrender announcement to his people, one of the reasons given was that the enemy had started using a new inhumane weapon that killed innocent people.

Grizz

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

I knew an elderly man who received a Dutch order of Orange for his work with KLM during the end of the Dutch period. The outward sign was an orange ribbon through a button hole. He would have been less than 25 yrs old at the time. At embassy receptions and other functions, people glommed onto him to have their picture taken. Clearly there were acts of grave importance which the English speaking world has no knowledge.

 

[fat tony]

I was looking for something like this:

http://www.sukarnoyears.com/423dutchrelations.htm

^A website with a more detailed history of what happened.

With further information on such subjects more readily available, it becomes easier to see why Canada did not take a more active role in South East Asia and other areas (Canada's unoccupied seat at the Organization of American States, for example) in the Cold War era.