They have to stop only 120 m / 395 ft away from the place where the street leads into the central square. Big mountains of rubble on the Komödienstrasse prevent the further advance of the tank group. This page will show you the famous tank battle at the Cologne cathedral.Ĭoming from western city districts, passing the city areas around Venloer Strasse, Friesenplatz, Friesenstrasse and Zeughausstrasse, a group of several US-tanks approach the central square in front of the cathedral. The following minutes will produce some of the most dramatic combat images to come out of WWII. File:Warning sign in cologne (cropped).The 3rd Armored Division tanks advance on the Cologne center and the cathedral.Commons talk:Featured picture candidates/Archive candidate list.Commons:Picture of the Year/2006/gallery large.Commons:Picture of the Year/2006/gallery0.Commons:Picture of the Year/2006/gallery.Commons:Featured pictures candidates/Image:Warning sign in cologne.jpg.Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/2006-A.Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/March 2006.This file has an extracted image: Warning sign in cologne (cropped).jpg. SIGHT SEERS KEEP OUT! Beyond this point you draw fire on our FIGHTING MEN HE RISKS HIS LIFE 24 HOURS A DAY DO YOU? Until the 16th April a strip of about 500m along the shore had been declared as a restricted area and the cathedral was just within this zone. The rest of Cologne was captured between 12th and 15th April 1945. The German army still held the eastern shore of the Rhine and attacked the Allies with artillery. The German tank is burnt out and the torsion-bars have been destroyed by the immense heat of the fire.Īllied troops captured the western part of Cologne on 6th-7th March 1945. Boger is with the 82nd Airborne Division. This street leads to the Rhine River and is under observation of the Germans who occupy a stronghold there. Boger, Concord, N.C., skytrooper, reads a warning sign in the street.
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