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Location Category ID:
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11220
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Address: |
Wylerbaan 4, 6561 KR Groesbeek, The Netherlands (Physical)
PO Box 144, 6560 AC Groesbeek, The Netherlands (Postal)
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Telephone: |
+31 24 397 4404
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Email: |
info [at] bevrijdingsmuseum.nl (Replace [at] with @)
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Opening Times: |
1000-1700 Monday-Saturday
1200-1700 Sunday
Closed 25 December and 1 January
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Official Website: |
Bevrijdingsmuseum
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Other Links: |
Oisterwijk-MarketGarden
Trip Advisor
WarMuseums.nl
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Latitude, Longitude: |
51.78552911
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5.93677461
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Location Accuracy: |
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The Nationaal Bevrijdingsmuseum (National Liberation Museum) is located close to Nijmegen, Arnhem and the German border, on one of the landing sites of Operation Market Garden and close to the Canadian War Cemetery. The museum tells the story of Holland's struggle for freedom starting in 1918, but mainly focuses on the 1940-45 period of German occupation and the liberation by the Allies. There are scale models, dioramas, and various displays to give insight into what happened nearby. Operation Market Garden is visualised, among other ways, in a scale model with a sound and light show and a life-size diorama depicting Allied troops crossing the river Waal.
The Dome of Honour building, containing a Roll of Honour, is shaped like a parachute and was added in 1987. It was built in memory of the dropping of thousands of American paratroops on the landing zones nearby in September 1944, as well as the great Rhineland Offensive of February 1945.
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Unique ID: |
2352
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Serial Number: |
“0?1?” stamped into glacis.
3385 (right transmission cover): “2 \P/ No 3385” stamped into right transmission cover.
2466 (centre transmission cover): “2466 191B” stamped into centre transmission cover.
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Registration: |
T152098: “T152098” painted on aft hull sides.
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Name: |
“ROBIN HOOD” painted on forward hull sides.
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Other Identification: |
“1027” cast into top of mantlet. “LH [E] 123Y u” and “2508” cast into left transmission cover. “E4151 705 L0 [E]” cast into right transmission cover. Fox Mask/“996” insignia painted on left transmission cover and left rear hull. “52” divisional insignia painted on right transmission cover and right rear hull. Yellow diamond painted on centre transmission cover and hull sides.
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A Canadian Ram tank was originally acquired by the Sherwood Rangers Association for display at Groesbeek, and 17th/21st Lancers had undertaken to restore it for display on a plinth. A Sherman, however, was felt to be more suitable, so the Bovington Tank Museum acquired a plinthed M4A1 of Royal Scots Dragoon Guards from the School of Infantry at Warminster and it was shipped to 17th/21st Lancers in about 1988. (Source: Bovington Vehicle Record). Before its time in England it had served with the Portuguese Army (source: Bevrijdingsmuseum via L. Delsing).
In the summer of 2010 it returned to the UK for a cosmetic restoration and repaint. It was put on a low-loader on Wednesday 19 May and transported to Rotterdam, then on board a vessel bound for York, England. The work was done by apprentices of TEi at Wakefield. It returned to Groesbeek on 10 September. (Source: AFVNDB/Gelderlander/BBC).
At the beginning of the Second World War the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (Nottinghamshire Yeomanry) was a non-mechanised cavalry unit, and it was not until the end of 1941 that it was equipped with tanks. A year later, in the Western Desert, the Regimental HQ tanks were appropriately named Robin Hood, Little John, Friar Tuck (all Grant tanks) and Maid Marion (a Crusader). The name Robin Hood was perpetuated in a Regimental HQ Sherman until 1945. (Source: B.T. White/British Tank Markings and Names).
This Grizzly has been painted to represent the Sherman tank Robin Hood. As well as the name it has the markings “996” in white on a red rectangle that is the Sherwood Rangers insignia, and a Red Fox mask on a yellow background that indicates 8th Armoured Brigade (the unit’s parent brigade).
This Grizzly is mounted on a low concrete plinth, and has a plaque in front that reads:
| NOTTS SHERWOOD RANGERS YEOMANRY |
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PRESENT THIS MEMORIAL IN
HONOURED REMEMBRANCE OF
288 OF THEIR COMRADES AND
ALL OTHERS, MILITARY AND
CIVILIAN, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE WAR OF LIBERATION
1939 – 1945
“THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE” | BIEDEN DIT GEDENKTEKEN AAN
ALS EERBIEDIGE HERINNERING
AAN HUN 268 MEDESTRIJDERS EN
ALLE ANDEREN, MILITAIREN EN
BURGERS, DIE HUN LEVEN GAVEN
IN DEZE BEVRIJDINGSOORLOG
1939 – 1945
“ZIJ STIERVEN OPDAT WIJ MOGEN LEVEN” |
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