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How the hell did they bring OV:s to Sam II? In the middle of the jungle?
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Well, how did they build an airbase in the middle of a jungle?
Simple answer: the base was near a riverbank. So by boat KNIL was able to send the heavy equipment across the Mahakan river deep into Borneo: there must have been bulldozers and tractors, aircraft supply vehicles, there were a couple of Bofors guns and the overvalwagens.
After the fall of Samarinda there was a brief saga of an inland navy of small craft harrassing the invaders. They operated from near SII. You can read all about it in Nortier's Borneo volume and Ies van Bel, Vlucht in het oerwoud, written by a Dutch navy man who took part in the river guerilla.
Your overvalwagen list: I have a "dynamic" list that gets improved from time to time. It comes close to yours, but I think several re-allocations were made prior to the various enemy assaults. Roughly half of the ovw's (mostly Braats) were on Java, half in the "buitengewesten" (Braats and Stadswacht types).
I hope to be able soon to prove which Stadswacht vehicles were sent to what station.
Many greetings,
Nuyt