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Unique ID:
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1137
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Added to Database:
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December 2009
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Last Edited:
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December 2009
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Type (ID):
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M4 Sherman (1302)
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Model (ID):
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M4 (1302)
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Location Category (ID):
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Price of Peace Monument (5560)
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Location (ID):
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Ortona (5560)
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Serial Number: |
24871 (source: P.-O. Buan/Shadock).
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Registration: |
3033401: “USA-3033401” originally painted on rear hull sides, but now “T146637” (British/Canadian) painted on rear hull sides.
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Name: |
“COOKIE” originally painted on middle hull sides (now “Athena” painted on forward hull sides).
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Other Identification: |
US star markings originally painted on hull and turret sides. Now Canadian flag painted on transmission cover, middle hull sides and hull rear, plus 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade markings on turret sides, nose and hull rear.
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Collection Reference: |
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Links: |
Prima Da Noi – Italian
12th Regiment News – French
12th Regiment News – English Translation
Maple Leaf Up – Ortona Remembered
WW2Talk
BattlefieldsWW1 on Flickr
The Shadock’s Website
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Associated Tanks: |
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Location History:
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1: American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, USA (1943)
2: Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum, Overloon, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands (1945-2006)
3: Price of Peace Monument, Ortona, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy (Current location)
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Text in original Preserved American Tanks publication:
[No entry]
Text in Preserved American Tanks Update:
[No entry]
Text in original Preserved Tanks In Italy publication:
This tank, ‘Cookie’, was a well known exhibit for many years at the Overloon war museum in the Netherlands, being displayed close to where it was put out of action. It is an early production version of the M4, retrofitted with appliqué armour on its hull and turret. It was manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (source: P.-O. Buan/Shadock), and served with Task Force Brown of Combat Command “A” of the 7th US Tank Division. During the first hour of the attack on the German fortifications near Overloon it turned over in a ditch, where it was left by its crew.
Canadian diplomats contacted the Dutch War and Resistance Museum at Overloon for a suitable tank for the Ortona monument and it offered to sell this tank for ninety thousand dollars. The Honorary Colonel of the Three Rivers Regiment, Lt Gen Jim Gervais, Harry Steele of Nova Scotia, and Seymour Schulich, Michael Wekerle and John Cleghorn of Toronto combined to raise the money and it was purchased. It was presented to Ortona by the Canadian Ambassador Robert Fowler and was placed next to the Monument on 31st July 2006. The installation of the tank in the Piazza was intended to be temporary, pending the creation of a suitable site. This was planned to be on a pedestal north of the Piazza, overlooking the beach. In the meantime the tank has been moved to a grassy area nearby.
There is a plaque on the left side of the hull that reads as follows:
This tank honours veterans of the 12th
Canadian Armoured Regiment (TRR)
and Sergeant Rudy Vinet, 27th Anti-Tank
Battery (RCA) and is donated to the
citizens of Ortona through the generosity of
Seymour Schulich, CM, Harry Steel, OC,
Michael Wekerle, and John Cleghorn, OC. |
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June 1997
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1: Front left view
Taken: June 1997
Contributor: A. Barrell
Photo ID: 8208
Added: 14 July 2012
Filename: FL_M4-Co...
Views: 203
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
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2: Rear right view
Taken: June 1997
Contributor: A. Barrell
Photo ID: 8209
Added: 14 July 2012
Filename: RR_M4-Co...
Views: 203
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
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