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Natural Monuments

Sherman Tank Turret Monument, Beegderheide

Natural Monuments

Sherman Tank Turret Monument, Beegderheide

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Sherman Tank Turret Monument, Beegderheide

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Location: Heel, Limburg, Netherlands

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May 30, 2025

Cycling

The tank gap has nothing to do with the war. This used to be a military training area, and two tanks were used as targets here.

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November 20, 2021

Cycling

Beautiful forest with heather fields. Formerly an old military training ground where this gun turret stood. is part of two Cherman tanks that were used as practice targets

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Frans Helmond 🇳🇱

September 22, 2019

Cycling

Halfway through the cycle route through this nature reserve is a war memorial in the form of a gun turret of a Sherman tank. From 1902 to 1999, the Beegderheide was used as a military training ground. For two decades, two American Sherman tanks have served as a training object. The tanks were removed in 1986. A command panel of a gun turret remained behind. The Heemkunde Beegden Workgroup Foundation cleaned this dome and placed it along the cycle path as a lasting memory of the military training grounds.

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Location: Heel, Limburg, Netherlands

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