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Unique ID:
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53
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Added to Database:
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May 2008
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Last Edited:
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6 June 2011
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Type (ID):
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Panther (110)
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Model (ID):
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Ausf G (245)
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Location Category (ID):
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Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum (11400)
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Location (ID):
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Museum Building (11402)
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Serial Number: |
128427, chassis number.
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Oorlogsmuseum
Overloon Panther
Panther1944.de
Panzer-Modell.de
Missing Lynx
STIWOT Forum
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Location History:
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1: Maschinenfabrik Niedersachsen-Hannover (MNH) GmbH, Linden, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany (August 1944)
2: Aachen, Germany (First staging point after issue June-July 1944)
3: Roermond, Netherlands (Staging point)
4: Venlo, Netherlands (Staging point)
5: Eindhoven, Netherlands (Staging point)
6: Son, Netherlands (Wilhelmina Canal bridge action September 1944)
7: Veghel, Netherlands (Holland Corridor action September 1944)
8: Liberty Park Oorlogsmuseum, Overloon, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands (Current location)
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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. This Panther Ausf G, with turret number “222”, had its right-hand suspension damaged. In June or July 1944 it was issued to 107 Armoured Brigade which was re-equipped and sent to Eindhoven, via Aachen, Roermond and Venlo, in September 1944. It was in action with this brigade at the Wilhelmina Canal bridge at Son and for the breakthrough of the Holland Corridor near Veghel (22nd-24th September 1944). During the battle of Overloon, where 107 Brigade made up the core of the German front, this particular tank was hit by a PIAT grenade of 2 Battalion, the East Yorkshire Regiment, and captured on 13 October 1944. The crew were killed.
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April 1982
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1: The Overloon Panther
Taken: 13 April 1982
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 149
Added: 3 July 2008
Filename: Scan_Pan...
Views: 538
Select/Has Priority: 1/0
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