8/7/2023 0 Comments Cologne tank battle video![]() This historic stock footage available in HD video. In early marcu 1945 US Army entered the Cologne for a pobotal battle in the finale days od ww2. Camera pans to view of the Cologne Cathedral (Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany) and then back to the burning Panther tank. The German Panther Tank receives additional fire from the Pershing and is consumed in flames. German soldiers jump from the Panther tank. The lanky 19-year-old with a mop of curly hair was part of a tank crew that had crawled into the German city of Cologne for what would become the US Army’s biggest house-to-house fight in. ![]() It is at street level in front of the building, with the cameraman above). (The Pershing tank is not seen in this footage. 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. 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 Panzer is one of three German tanks remaining in the city. The German Panther tank lay in ambush in the debris-filled streets of Cologne in the waning days of World War II, an American tank in its sights just 70 yards away. This is shortly after it had knocked out at least one U.S. View of a German Mark V Panzer (Panther) tank in Komödienstrasse near the Cologne Cathedral. Soldier in prone position atop pile of debris fires a machine gun. Two soldiers atop pile of debris poised with rifles at the ready. Tanks advance through the debris filled streets. Wrecked buildings and rubble along the street sides. United States Army 3rd Armored Division soldiers in Cologne (Köln) Germany during World War II.
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