United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along the sides of the street. Debris on the street. Tank crew and other soldiers seated on an M4 Sherman tank, in front of a damaged building. U.S. infantry moving along a sidewalk and followed by a Sherman tank. Glimpse of a white flag displayed on nearby building. View over the shoulder of American infantryman, firing his rifle, from rubble at side of road. An M26 Pershing tank and a jeep are parked in the street. The Pershing is firing at a building. The infantryman fires his rifle again. Two M36 Jackson tank destroyers drive past the firing Pershing tank.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. A dead civilian lies near a wrecked truck. U.S. tank passes in the background. Destroyed buildings along street sides. Debris on the street. Soldiers standing near a ruined building.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. German soldier with hands raised surrenders to United States Army soldiers. Destroyed buildings and wreckage along the street sides. Debris on the street. View from camera position looking out of at a street-level city window as a German Panzer tank is hit by fire from an Allied tank and goes up in flames, near the Cologne Cathedral. Smoke rising from the burning tank. (This is a slightly more distant view of the well-documented attack on a German Mark V Panzer tank, by gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an American M-26 Pershing tank).
The U.S. soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Rubbled buildings along the street sides. U.S. soldiers racing across streets while tracers from the U.S. tanks cover their advance. The destroyed cathedral in the foreground. Posters in German on the wall of a building. Tracer fire striking vehicles in the background. German soldier walking across the intersection. Soldier breaking down the door of a building. Two soldiers watching through binoculars.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings and rubble on the streets in Cologne. United States Army M4 Sherman and M26 tanks fire into a building. A soldier talking on the field phone. Wall of building crumbles after shell hits.
The U.S. soldiers of the 3rd Armored Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Rubbled buildings along the street sides. U.S. soldiers cautiously advance through the debris filled streets. U.S. soldiers attend wounded German girl lying near a wrecked vehicle.