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

[Alex van de Wetering]

Reading that, what I find odd is that the Overloon museum had the correct type of Sherman that they weren’t using, but sold the wrong type, that they were, to be a memorial in Italy.

At the time they sold Cookie, there was an ongoing conflict between the Overloon museum and the people from the Marshall museum collection. The M4A4 was in the Marshall museum collection, so if Overloon would have sold that one to Italy, than I am sure the conflict would only have gotten worse!

Thankfully the conflict has since been resolved and as far as I know Overloon now owns all vehicles previously in the Marshall collection.....which is the reason we have seen lot's of post-war vehicles being sold, in favour of the WW2 vehicles.

Alex