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Americans capture Cologne...
Americans capture Cologne...
Item # 689909
March 06, 1945
STARS & STRIPES, Paris Edition, March 6, 1945
* Capture of Cologne, Germany
* First United States Army
* World War II - WWII
This was the: "Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations" as noted in the masthead.
Front page banner headline: "Yanks In Cologne" with subheads: "1st Army Enters City at Two Points" along with two related maps. Front page photo of "Princess Elizabeth" plus more.
Eight pages, tabloid-size, good condition.
AI notes: In early March 1945, the U.S. First Army launched a decisive assault to capture Cologne, one of Germany’s last major western strongholds, as part of the final Allied push into the heart of the Third Reich. Despite heavy bombing that had reduced much of the city to rubble, German forces, including remnants of the Wehrmacht and Volkssturm, mounted a scattered but determined defense. The battle is famously remembered for a dramatic tank duel near the iconic Cologne Cathedral, where an American Sherman tank destroyed a German Panther in close combat, an event captured on film by a U.S. Army cameraman. The fall of Cologne on March 5 not only provided the Allies with a strategic Rhine crossing point but also paved the way for their rapid advance deeper into Germany, culminating in the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen shortly thereafter. This victory was instrumental in breaking the German defensive line and accelerating the collapse of Nazi Germany in the weeks leading to the end of World War II in Europe.
Category: World War II
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