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The badge is based on the | The badge is based on the arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The badge was approved on 11 June 1952. | ||
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