Dutch KNIL armed with a PAG 4,7 cm gun on practice in 1940.
Note the front soldiers is armed with a M.39 Sub-machine gun.
The dutch KNIL used a with range of exotic weapons.
All weapons they could get there hands on really.
They used these M.39's
*Johnson Semi-auto weapons, (they couldn't get hands on the Garands)
*Thompson/tommyguns
*Breda Mg's (captured in Africa by the British and brought to the dutch Indië for defect against japan
*Hotchkiss Mg's
*Maxime 08/15 MG's
*Lewis MG's (main Lmg in the KNIL)
*water cooled .30 and .50 cals
*Madsen LMG (next to the Lewis the main LMG)
*Madsen 20mm At rifle
*M.38 At rifle
*Luger and Mauser c.96 karabines
*BAR 1939 (very low numbers)
*Vickers Mg's
(most of these weapons I have pictures in actual use)
Don't think allot Dutch people know that the KNIL wasn't that bad armed, only thing is that it came so late that most of it was still in depot's!
