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Old 21-07-23, 11:30
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
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I’ve now found the other photos I have of this LVT:

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Name:	LVT Vrouwenpolder 1 (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpg
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Name:	LVT Vrouwenpolder 2 (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpg
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These are scans of photos from the collection of local amateur historian J.C. van Winkelen; since he had multiple copies of many photos like these, I suspect some enterprising photographer made and sold them in the 1940s — or perhaps he took the photos himself and printed a bunch of them, of course. On the back of one of these, he had written:

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Name:	LVT Vrouwenpolder uitleg (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpg
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That is:—
Quote:
Vrouwenpolder 1945
(gedeeltelijk door personeel van RAF
gedemonteerd, voor reparatie van
een ander [sic] Buffalo op het dorp)
In English:
Quote:
Vrouwenpolder 1945
(partially disassembled by RAF personnel,
to repair another Buffalo in the village)
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