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).
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along Old Town Cologne. Debris on the street. A tank's gun traverses. Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) in the foreground. A soldier standing beside a Jeep uses a field phone. Soldiers advance on the street.
United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II. Wrecked buildings and rubble along the street sides. Tanks advance through the debris filled streets. Two soldiers atop pile of debris poised with rifles at the ready. Soldier in prone position atop pile of debris fires a machine gun. View of a German Mark V Panzer (Panther) tank in Komödienstrasse near the Cologne Cathedral. This is shortly after it had knocked out at least one U.S. M4 Sherman tank in Cologne that day. The Panzer is one of three German tanks remaining in the city. Combat camera footage from Cameraman Jim Bates shows the attack on the Panther tank as seen from Bates' position in the Deutsche Arbeitsfront building. The Panther is hit by fire from gunner Corporal Clarence Smoyer in an M-26 series Pershing tank (a T26E3) with a 90mm gun, which had just rolled into position at the crossing of An den Dominikanern and Marzellenstraße. (The Pershing tank is not seen in this footage. It is at street level in front of the building, with the cameraman above). German soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The German Panther Tank receives additional fire from the Pershing and is consumed in flames. Smoke rising from the tank. Camera pans to view of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) and then back to the burning Panther 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.
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