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Unique ID: 211 Added to Database: 21 June 2011 Last Edited: 26 June 2011 Type (ID): Renault FT (6030) Model (ID): Forged and cast round turret (6060) Location Category (ID): Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum (11400) Location (ID): Marshall Collection Hall (11404) Serial Number: 788.18: “788.18” stamped into manufacturer’s plate on left suspension frame (year of manufacture 1918). “78818” painted on suspension frames. Registration: Name: Other Identification: “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. Collection Reference: Links: Wikipedia – Volkel Air Base Landships Forum Tanks! TWENOT Forum References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 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) 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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June 2011 1: Left view Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5320 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 09_FT17s... Views: 164 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Front view Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5321 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 10_FT17s... Views: 153 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		3: Rear left view Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5322 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 16_FT17s... Views: 151 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
4: Engine compartment Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5323 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 15_FT17s... Views: 163 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		5: Close-up Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5324 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 11_FT17s... Views: 156 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		6: Close-up Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5325 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 13_FT17s... Views: 86 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
7: Turret close-up Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5326 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 12_FT17s... Views: 152 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		8: Tail Taken: 3 June 2011 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5327 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 14_FT17s... Views: 147 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
September 2010 9: Front left view Taken: 3 September 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5317 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 06_FT17s... Views: 157 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		10: Rear left view Taken: 3 September 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5318 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 08_FT17s... Views: 157 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		11: Close up of maker's plate and serial number Taken: 3 September 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5319 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 07_FT17s... Views: 152 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
May 2010 12: Front right view Taken: 16 May 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5313 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 02_FT17s... Views: 157 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		13: Right view Taken: 16 May 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5314 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 03_FT17s... Views: 157 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		14: Rear right view Taken: 16 May 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5315 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 04_FT17s... Views: 152 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
15: Rear right view Taken: 16 May 2010 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5316 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 05_FT17s... Views: 98 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
July 2008 16: Front right view Taken: 29 July 2008 Contributor: M. Krauss Photo ID: 5312 Added: 25 June 2011 Filename: 01_FT17s... Views: 220 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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