M4 Medium Tank "Cookie" will return to Overloon war museum

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some more info on Cookie:
M4 Medium Tank, serial number 24871, registration number USA 3033401.
Assigned to 7th Armored Division, 31st Tank Battalion, Company C as Tank no. 13.
Put out of action during the Battle of Overloon, The Netherlands, between 30 September and 18 October 1944. Location: 2 to 3 km. to the west of the Oploosche dijk area in the hamlet called 't Vlak. Crew: none killed - tank was not hit but instead tilted in a ditch and was abandoned by the crew.
"Cookie" had been moved to Overloon Museum by 11 March 1947.

Sources:
http://www.7tharmddiv.org/docrep/overloon-tanks.htm
http://www.7tharmddiv.org/wwii-tank-serial-numbers.htm
http://www.7tharmddiv.org/overloon-cookie-returns.htm


And some more pictures:
Cookie pictured on 27 May 1946 at the former Overloon battlefield, by then the museum grounds.
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Source: Nationaal Archief 2.24.01.03, 901-7696


Boys climb on Cookie just after WW2. In the early years the Overloon museum was not more than a collection of artefacts on the former battlefield.
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Source: Nationaal Archief, 2.24.01.09, 900-0425


1960s:
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Source: https://www.bhic.nl/memorix/images/s...e-237244c790f7