I had a grand pa who was in the ETO. He was a medic w/ capt.s rank , and fought from Normandy to near Berlin. He was in Operation Market Garden , ( a near disaster planned by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery to end WW2 in Europe via Holland. ) He sed the Brit paratroopers were mauled @ Arnhem , and the USAs 101 , and 82 nd A/B Div.s faired slightly better , but never successfully x the Rhine. Not to mention their meager gains had to be defended from constant WAFFEN SS Conyers attacks. This was about mid 9/44. He then went w/his unit to the Ardennes to stem a Nazi- German counter attack ( Battle of The Bulge )! He , and dude behind him , in Jeep after hitting a mine , were wounded , both drver , and dude behind were kia. He was picked up by an American patrol , and was lucky , because Colonel Joachim Piper s "Liebstandarte WAFFEN SS , 1st Panzer div. Was nearby . The same Colonel Joachim Piper culpable of massacring nearly 30 USA troops @ Malmsey! Battle of the Bulge happened at 12/16/44 . He was reluctant to talk about a nasty period in his life! Took yrs. for him to spill his guts.
He died shortly afterwards, bled to death according to records available on the internet. Sorry to say, I can't remember his name. He was much younger than he looks in the clip, mid 20's I think. There is an American newspaper clipping reporting his death which has a photo of him. His driver was killed, there is a photo somewhere on the internet, no wound visible but looks like the concussion caused brain damage. The shell from the Panther, which was concealed under a railway arch in the background (Köln Hauptbahnhof), entered the Sherman right above the driver's head, taking off the commander's lower leg, as you observed.
La ciudad luce un poco deteriorada (una pena que no la hayan destruido por completo). Extraño video: en sus 9 minutos de duración, apenas se ve a media docena de representantes de la "raza superior". ¿Por casualidad el resto había huido como ratas por tirante ante el avance de los estadounidenses?
I had a grand pa who was in the ETO. He was a medic w/ capt.s rank , and fought from Normandy to near Berlin. He was in Operation Market Garden , ( a near disaster planned by Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery to end WW2 in Europe via Holland. ) He sed the Brit paratroopers were mauled @ Arnhem , and the USAs 101 , and 82 nd A/B Div.s faired slightly better , but never successfully x the Rhine. Not to mention their meager gains had to be defended from constant WAFFEN SS Conyers attacks. This was about mid 9/44.
He then went w/his unit to the Ardennes to stem a Nazi- German counter attack ( Battle of The Bulge )! He , and dude behind him , in Jeep after hitting a mine , were wounded , both drver , and dude behind were kia. He was picked up by an American patrol , and was lucky , because Colonel Joachim Piper s "Liebstandarte WAFFEN SS , 1st Panzer div. Was nearby . The same Colonel Joachim Piper culpable of massacring nearly 30 USA troops @ Malmsey! Battle of the Bulge happened at 12/16/44 .
He was reluctant to talk about a nasty period in his life! Took yrs. for him to spill his guts.
Actually the death toll from The Malmedy Massacre was 84 US troops.
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The famous tank duel at Cologne. Entire books have been written about that event. Fascinating.
I understood that the tank crewman seen jumping off the hit Sherman tank had his foot blown off and bled out within a few moments.
Poor guy climbing out of the turret at 07:45 is missing the lower part of left leg. It's even smoking.
He died shortly afterwards, bled to death according to records available on the internet. Sorry to say, I can't remember his name. He was much younger than he looks in the clip, mid 20's I think. There is an American newspaper clipping reporting his death which has a photo of him. His driver was killed, there is a photo somewhere on the internet, no wound visible but looks like the concussion caused brain damage. The shell from the Panther, which was concealed under a railway arch in the background (Köln Hauptbahnhof), entered the Sherman right above the driver's head, taking off the commander's lower leg, as you observed.
The victors write the history books.
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Those poor bastards in the Sherman got blind-sided by a Panther
City sure smelled good.
La ciudad luce un poco deteriorada (una pena que no la hayan destruido por completo). Extraño video: en sus 9 minutos de duración, apenas se ve a media docena de representantes de la "raza superior". ¿Por casualidad el resto había huido como ratas por tirante ante el avance de los estadounidenses?