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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
Hanno,
The same way that 25-pdrs from Malaya ended up scattered across the islands of the SWP: the Japanese moved the captured equipment about to where it was needed by Japanese forces. There is a 25-pdr in the collection of the AWM that is ex-British Army, ex-Japanese Army, 'resumed' in 1945.
I suspect a specialist truck like a water tank would be the sort of equipment that would be moved and used in other places.
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Thanks Mike,
Seeing the display they were very happy with their war booty.
Similar to the Netherlands East-Indies Army equipment, plenty of which was re-used by the Japanese Army, and then taken over again by the NEI Army in 1945. Some equipment even went through Dutch-Japanese-Indonesian-Dutch-Indonesian hands between 1942 and 1949!