Danish armor 9. april 1940?

Jones · Post by **Jones** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:02 am

As the topic maybe says.. Were there any Danish Armor in combat during 9. april OR did Denmark even have any armored units?

And if there were why werent they brought into combat during 9. april?

sid guttridge · Post by **sid guttridge** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:26 am

Hi Jones,

Denmark had no tanks, but it did have about half a dozen new Swedish Lansverk heavy armoured cars. However, I think they were on the island of Jylland and so were not in a position to oppose the main German attack on the Jylland Peninsula.

There are several good Danish military history sites, at least one of which has photos of the vehicle.

Cheers,

Sid.

daveh · Post by **daveh** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:02 am

see

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/

for details of danish armoured vehicles

Jones · Post by **Jones** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:53 am

Thx lads:)

Maybe you mean the island of sealand?:) Cuz Jylland is FROM what i know (i live there

) not an island.

sid guttridge · Post by **sid guttridge** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:10 am

Hi Jones,

Yup, sorry. I did, indeed, mean the island of Sjaelland.

Thanks,

Sid.

Christensen · Post by **Christensen** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:39 am

Take a look at http://www.chakoten.dk/ and http://www.milhist.dk/ I'm sure you can find information about excatly what units were involved in fightings on the 9th og April there.

For more information about armoured vehicles in the Danish army go to http://www.armyvehicles.dk/