Airmobile brigade

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Rapid division

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Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten

Former union of Dutch resistance groups

The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS; English: 'Domestic Armed Forces'), fully the Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (NBS), was a government-sanctioned union of Dutch resistance groups during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, which had hardly cooperated until then.

History

Until 1944 the resistance groups, insofar as they were in contact, worked independently under the supervision of the Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten (BBO, 'Office of Special Assignments') of the Dutch government-in-exile in London. When they were merged into the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was appointed commander of this new organization, although he remained in London. The commander of the BS in the occupied Netherlands was Colonel Henri Koot, who was in Amsterdam.

At the time the groups were united, they had less than 10,000 members between them. They were also very poorly armed, though this would improve following Allied weapon drops.

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The RSPB Stoottroepen Regiment originated from the landelijke knokploegen (national assault squad (LKP)) and the Raad Van Verzet (Resistance Council (RVV)) in World War II, who were then known as Stoottroepers or 'Stoters'.

In the year after its establishment, around 600 resistance fighters operated in dozens of assault squads. LKP thereby managed to ensure a more or less regular supply of voucher cards for the benefit of people in hiding. Raids were also sometimes carried out for identity cards, but most of them were obtained through forgery.

The Internal Armed Forces (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten - BS) were created in part to keep the armed resistance movement manageable, as it would be widely supplied with weapons. The BS was bound by all sorts of rules. They were only allowed, for instance, to emerge as an 'army' if the commander Prince Bernhard gave the signal to do so.

In September 1944, Prince Bernhard formally ordered the formation of a military alliance consisting of people who were actively involved in the armed resistance. The BS wore blu

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Regiment Stoottroepen Prins Bernhard

Military unit

The Regiment Stoottroepen Prins Bernhard is an infantryregiment of the Royal Netherlands Army.^[1]

The Regiment Stoottroepen was founded on 21 September 1944 in Eindhoven, and composed of members of the Dutch resistance from those parts of the Netherlands that had been recently liberated from German occupation. The formation took place on the orders of Prince Bernhard, in his capacity as Commander of the Dutch armed forces. By the time of the surrender of the last German forces in the Netherlands, on 5 May 1945, the regiment had grown to some 6,000 men.

Following the liberation of the Netherlands, the regiment was incorporated into the RNLA, and it component battalions took part in the police actions in the Dutch East Indies 1946–1949. During the 1950s, the Dutch army underwent reorganisation, and the Regiment Stoottropen was reduced to one battalion, 41 Infantry Battalion. In due course, this unit was converted to mechanized infantry (Dutch: pantserinfanteriebataljon, abbreviated to "painfbat").

In 1994, 41