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Unique ID:
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211
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Added to Database:
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21 June 2011
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Last Edited:
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26 June 2011
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Type (ID):
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Renault FT (6030)
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Model (ID):
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Forged and cast round turret (6060)
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Location Category (ID):
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Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum (11400)
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Location (ID):
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Marshall Collection Hall (11404)
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Serial Number: |
788.18: “788.18” stamped into manufacturer’s plate on left suspension frame (year of manufacture 1918). “78818” painted on suspension frames.
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“112” painted in red with white edging on turret sides. “Louis RENAULT CONSTRUCTEUR BILLANCOURT-SEINE” cast into plaque on left suspension frame. “P. GIROD LOIRE” cast into front left turret side. “G8” painted on front right turret side. German crosses painted on nose and hull rear. Painted overall blue-grey.
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Wikipedia – Volkel Air Base
Landships Forum
Tanks!
TWENOT Forum
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Location History:
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1: Renault S.A., Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France, North East France, France (Built 1918)
2: Volkel Airfield, Netherlands (Until late 1944)
3: Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum, Overloon, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands (Current location)
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Text in original Preserved French Tanks publication:
[No entry]
Text in Preserved French Tanks Update:
[No entry]
Text in original Preserved Tanks In The Netherlands publication:
Two examples of the Renault FT were purchased in 1927 by the Netherlands Army for trials and testing of tanks on Dutch soil. This included a test at The Hague on 12 May 1927 (source: Tanks!). One ended its career in the Dutch army in 1939 at the Ripperda barracks in Haarlem as a gate monument, with its engine removed; the Germans might however have replaced the engine and used it for airfield security (source: Landships Forum). This machine-gun armed Renault FT was used by the Germans for guarding services and was left behind on Volkel Airfield. It was restored in 1974/75 by Dutch Army volunteers. It has been suggested that it is an original Dutch Renault FT, however it does not appear to match contemporary photographs in a number of ways, in particular it has its manufacturer’s plate on the left track frame (the same side as the lifting jack) whereas the Dutch vehicles had it on the right track frame (the same side as the exhaust).
Volkel Airfield, Nachtlandeplatz Volkel, was constructed by the Luftwaffe as a diversion airfield for fighter aircraft after the occupation of the Netherlands by Germany in 1940. Later during the war, in 1943, the airfield was turned into an operational Luftwaffe base, and renamed Fliegerhorst Volkel. It was home to the 5e Zerstörer Gruppe operating the Junkers Ju 88, and the 3e Gruppe Jagdgeschwader 7 operating the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter aircraft. A second jet engined aircraft, the Arado Ar 234 Bomber, landed in the morning of August 30, 1944, and flew bombing missions out of Volkel for about a week. V-1 flying bombs were also fired from Volkel. To defend the base against aerial attacks, the Germans had installed flak guns, but it was still bombed extensively. Attacks in 1944 in relation to Operation Market Garden caused such extensive damage to the airport that it could no longer be used by the Luftwaffe. When later that year the south of the Netherlands was liberated, the Royal Air Force took control of the airfield. (Source: Wikipedia).
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July 2012
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1: Upper front left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8395
Added: 4 August 2012
Filename: 76785866...
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2: Upper front left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8396
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Filename: 76785742...
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3: Upper rear left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8397
Added: 4 August 2012
Filename: 76785619...
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4: Front left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8398
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Filename: 76785507...
Views: 162
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5: Left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8399
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Filename: 76784906...
Views: 145
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6: Rear left view
Taken: 6 July 2012
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 8400
Added: 4 August 2012
Filename: 76785206...
Views: 155
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