Dutch Veterans Day

Today we take a moment to reflect on the war veterans in the Louwman Museum. The Willys Jeep Model MB and the Volkswagen 166 Schwimmwagen. The number of Jeeps produced by the end of the war was an army in itself: 639,245 units! About 14,000 Schwimmwagens were built. The Jeep could handle any terrain, the Schwimmwagen could go over water. The Jeep won the war. The Schwimmwagen did not. Things also went badly for the Schwimmwagen after the war. Because of the great demand for steel, many of them were scrapped. 🪖