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Location Category ID: 11400 Added to Database: May 2008 Last Edited: 5 June 2011 Address: Liberty Park, Museumpark 1, 5825 AM Overloon Telephone: +31-478-641250 Email: info [at] libertypark.nl (Replace [at] with @) Opening Times: Official Website: Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum Other Links: Oisterwijik-MarketGarden M136 – Overloon in 1970s Liberty Park Overloon Rijnmond.nl Latitude, Longitude: 51.57071491 , 5.95590949 Location Accuracy: 7 Tanks Previously Here: Long term: 1: M4 Sherman Tank - Price of Peace Monument, Ortona, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy (1945-2006) 2: M4A4 Sherman Tank - Canadian War Museum, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Not the museum but service in Netherlands 1944) 3: M4A4 Sherman Crab Mark II Mine Flail - Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum, Overloon, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands (Not the museum but the Battle of Overloon October 1944) Short term: 1: Hetzer Tank Destroyer - Crompton Military Vehicle Collection, Suffolk, East England, Britain (Militracks May 2010) 2: M51 Sherman Tank - Frederik Hendrik Kazerne, Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands (June-July 2012) 3: M18 Hellcat Gun Motor Carriage - Frederik Hendrik Kazerne, Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands (June-July 2012) The Nationaal Oorlogs- en Verzetsmuseum (National War and Resistance Museum) of the Netherlands is located at Overloon, which is about 30km to the south of Nijmegen and 5km to the north-west of Venray (Venraij). In September 1944, during Operation Market Garden, the Allies planned to broaden their supply corridor from the Belgian border to Nijmegen, but they encountered stiff German resistance in the area of Overloon and Venray. A battle raged there for three weeks and included the only tank battle to take place in the Netherlands. In May 1946 a committee of Overloon villagers opened a museum in remembrance of the Battle of Overloon on a part of the battlefield, displaying remnants of the Battle. The museum grew with many gifts from Allied troops, former resistance groups and members of the public, and the museum building was extended. The nature of the collection, containing weapons, photographs, and documents, made the museum committee decide to give the museum a national character. The Museumpark covers an area of thirty-five acres and originally contained all of the larger exhibits on display, such as artillery pieces, aircraft and military vehicles. The majority of these are now contained in a new museum building, along with the Marshall Collection of vehicles. This building also displays smaller exhibits, such as small-arms, as well as many photographs, documents, maps and models illustrating various aspects of the First and Second World Wars. The owner of the Marshall Collection, Jaap de Groot, loaned the collection to Overloon and as part of the deal Overloon built the new Marshall hall. In 2009 there was a report that de Groot had applied to have the collection returned because he was unhappy with Overloon’s management of the collection, but he lost the case. (Source: Rijnmond.nl). Jaap de Groot died in April 2011 at the age of 88 (source: M. Krauss).

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July 2012 1: M26 Dragon Wagon transporter carrying an M4A4 Sherman tank Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 819 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 223 Has Priority: 0		2: M75 armoured personnel carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 820 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 198 Has Priority: 0		3: M113A1 carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 821 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 172 Has Priority: 0
4: GT-SM GAZ-71 carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 822 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 687 Has Priority: 0		5: M29 Weasel amphibious carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 823 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 195 Has Priority: 0		6: BARC / LARC-LX amphibious carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 824 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 215 Has Priority: 0
7: Universal carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 825 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 1116 Has Priority: 0		8: Universal carrier Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 826 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 196 Has Priority: 0		9: Universal carrier with conger Taken: 6 July 2012 Contributor: M. Foti Location Photo ID: 827 Added: 5 August 2012 Views: 208 Has Priority: 0
May 2011 10: Liberty Park entrance Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 758 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 166 Has Priority: 20		11: Museum building entrance Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 759 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 155 Has Priority: 0		12: Marshall Hall Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 760 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 158 Has Priority: 0
13: M29 Weasel cargo carrier Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 761 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 457 Has Priority: 0		14: Universal carrier Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 762 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 468 Has Priority: 0		15: Universal carrier with Conger device Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 763 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 202 Has Priority: 0
16: Goliath demolition vehicle Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 764 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 162 Has Priority: 0		17: Caterpillar tractor Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 765 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 166 Has Priority: 0		18: Armoured car outside Liberty Park for Militracks event Taken: 14 May 2011 Contributor: T. Larkum Location Photo ID: 766 Added: 27 May 2012 Views: 227 Has Priority: 0

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