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188<A HREF="colpicward2.html"><br>Deutsch</a></TD></TR> 189</TABLE> 190 191<p> 192 193<TABLE BORDER=0 width=580> 194 195<TR><TD valign=top width=250><img src="anfahrt2.jpg" WIDTH="260" HEIGHT="183"></TD><TD colspan=2> 196<table align=right width=280 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" cellpadding=10> 197<TR><TD valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"><b>Cologne, Germany, March 6, 1945.<br> <br>The 3rd Armored Division tanks advance on the Cologne center and the cathedral. It's about 2 pm.<br> <br>The following minutes will produce some of the most dramatic combat images to come out of WWII.<br> <br>This page will show you the famous tank battle at the Cologne cathedral.</b></TD></TR> 198</table> 199</TD></TR> 200 201<TR><TD colspan=3> </TD></TR> 202 203<TR><TD colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"> <img src="tank22neu.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="153" align=left><img src="links2.jpg" width="10" height="9"> Coming 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. Big mountains of rubble on the Komödienstrasse prevent the further advance of the tank group. They have to stop only 120 m / 395 ft away from the place where the street leads into the central square.<p> 204 205<img src="shermanmitkuppeln.jpg" width="500" height="324"></a><br> 206<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Image montage: the US-tanks approaching the cathedral square can not be overlooked by the Germans. On the Komödienstraße there is a lot of debris, but the cupolas of two tanks surpass the debris.<p> 207 208</TD></TR> 209 210<TR><TD colspan=3> </TD></TR> 211<TR><TD colspan=3> 212<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"><b>1.) Skirmish Panther vs. Sherman</b></span><p> 213</TD></TR> 214 215 216<TR><TD valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer9.jpg" width="250" height="193"><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> One M4A1W76 Sherman tank (right) and one M4A3W75 Sherman tank (left) from F Co, 32nd A.R., 3rd AD are standing on Komödienstrasse next to street Andreaskloster (at the left side). </TD><TD width=40> </TD> 217<TD valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer8.jpg" width="250" height="195"><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Suddenly a shell from a German Panther tank hits the leading US tank. Then a second one hits. A member of the crew, tank commander Kellner, tries to flee out of the tank.<br> 218</TD></TR> 219 220<TR><TD colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"><img src="schildsherman.jpg" width="500" height="484"><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Two hits in the area of the gun shield. On the two left pictures in color the area in which the shield was deformed or blown off. The picture on the right shows a view from obliquely behind. You can see very well the demolition edge in the upper part. In the lower part one can guess the missing piece of the shield. 221</TD></TR> 222 223<TR><TD valign=top colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br> 224Where did the shots from come ?<br> 225There's a picture taken by George Silk when the battle at the cathedral was over. It shows the Sherman and in background the german Panther, which had hit the Sherman. On the right side there's the Sherman and in background the burning Panther at street crossing Marzellenstrasse. He is really good to see there. <img src="unten2.jpg" width="9" height="10"><br> 226 227<img src="silkpanther.jpg" width="500" height="184"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Excerpt of a picture made by George Silk, Life Magazin<p> 228 229And now a comparison with movie sequences before and after the hits:<br> 230<img src="keinpanther.jpg" width="499" height="182"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> In the background there's no Panther shortly before (right) and shortly after the hit (left), where one can see the Panther on the Silk photo later. So, where was the Panther located when he had hit the Sherman ?<p> 231 232<table border=0> 233<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=530 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=middle style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video-Popup:<br><a href="pantherdae.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','900','420','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Here are the original movie scenes I took the still photos from</a> and I zoomed the area where the Panther later stood with my video software. They show, he wasn't located there at the time he hit the Sherman. 234</TD></TR> 235</TABLE> 236<p> 237 238 239</TD></TR> 240 241</TR><TD valign=top colspan=3> 242<img src="unterfuehrung.jpg" width="335" height="239" align=left><img src="links2.jpg" width="10" height="9"> In the background one can see a tunnel under the central station. It's the street tunnel Trankgasse.</TD></TR> 243 244</TR><TD valign=top colspan=3> </TD></TR> 245 246</TR><TD valign=top><img src="schusslinie.jpg" width="248" height="368"></TD>
246<TD colspan=2 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify" valign=top><img src="links2.jpg" width="10" height="9"> When the Panther had shot he probably was located in or near the dark tunnel (white arrow) and the US troops were not able to see it there before. The red point is the place where the Sherman was located - distance tunnel / Sherman: 340 m / 1.115 ft.. After the hit the Panther was driving to the crossing Marzellenstrasse where he later was destroyed (distance Panther there / Sherman: 120 m / 395 ft.. There are records saying the Panther was already located at the crossing when the Sherman reached Komödienstrasse and they thought it was knocked out. But this seems to be unrealistic. Tank crews typically will not take it for granted that a tank in no mans land would be knocked out. They would shoot at it until it burned, which is what the Sherman crew would have done if the Panther was in sight on the crossing Marzellenstrasse. Following several sources the German tank Mark V (Panther) Ausf. A was from Panzerbrigade 106 "Feldherrnhalle".</TD></TR> 247 248<TR><TD colspan=3> <br> 249Back to the Sherman in Komödienstrasse after the hits:<br> 250</TD></TR> 251 252<TR><TD valign=top width=250 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer7.jpg"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> The tank smokes from the inside. One hit had cut off the soldier's left leg below the knee. 253 254<table border=0> 255<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=210 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=middle style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video popup:<br><a href="kellner.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','320','320','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Kellner's injury, nothing for sensitive people</a> 256</TD></TR> 257</TABLE> 258 259</TD><TD width=40> </TD> 260<TD valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer6.jpg"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Behind the tank commander Kellner, who is creeping out, a second soldier falls down from the tank 261</TD></TR> 262 263<TR><TD colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <p><IMG SRC="Gialluca.jpg" WIDTH="102" HEIGHT="133" ALT="" align=left><img src="links2.jpg" width="10" height="9"> The second soldier seems to be 19 years old Corporal 'Gunner' <a href="gialluca.html" target="_new">John J Gialluca</a> of the 3rd Armored Division 'Spearhead'. His son Doug found my site on the web and sent me the following mail where he describes the situation as he heard it from his father:<p> 264<font color=green>The last tank battle in Cologne Germany on March 6 1945 happened as Corporal Gunner John J Gialluca approached the square of town between two buildings where suddenly by surprise a Panther Mark V hit their Sherman tank. John remembers the tank burning and they were trapped. The shrapnel went through his legs and he said he was pinned to his seat when a second blast under the turret forced him free from his position. There were no other survivors except Corporal John J Gialluca. There was another tank disabled next to his tank that tried to help the injured. They found John lying on the ground with his 45 caliber hand gun in his hand. Then John said as they were helping him he could hear the blast and gunfire from what is known now the battle of the last tank. The Sherman tank that Corporal John J Gialluca was in was facing the cannon of the 75mm high velocity Panther Mark V. The 76 mm is questionable as for penetrating the heavy armored Panther head to head. This was John's second tank hit in his journey from Normandy Beach and very fortunate to survive. Corporal Gunner John J Gialluca was sent to a hospital in England where he had a lengthy recovery and was able to walk again. After a long fight with kidney cancer John went to be with the Lord on July 5th 1998. </font> 265</TD></TR> 266 267<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top> 268Contrary to the memory of John J Gialluca there's another crew member who survives the attack too, it's Oliver Griffin, the assistant driver.<p> 269So the Sherman crew was:<br> 270 271<p> 272<table> 273<tr><td width=10></td><td BGCOLOR="eeeeee"> 274<IMG SRC="soldier2.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="12"> Tank Commander Kellner<br> 275<IMG SRC="soldier2.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="12"> Gunner Gialluca<br> 276<IMG SRC="soldier2.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="12"> Asst. Gunner Speer<br> 277<IMG SRC="soldier2.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="12"> Driver Patrick<br> 278<IMG SRC="soldier2.gif" WIDTH="14" HEIGHT="12"> Asst. Driver Griffin<br> 279</td></tr> 280</table><p> 281</TD></TR> 282 283<TR><TD valign=top colspan=3> 284Once again the exit of Gialluca:<br> 285<img src="giallucafall2.jpg" WIDTH="429" HEIGHT="231"><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> 286At the beginning of the movie scene Gialluca is already located on top of the cupola. One can see the torso and the head. Then - picture top middle - Gialluca wants to jump down from the tank, showing his bottom. Next pictures: he jumps down headfirst, one can see his legs stretched upwards. <p> 287 288<table border=0> 289<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=210 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=middle style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video popup:<br><a href="giallucavideo.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','320','320','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Gialluca's exit</a> 290</TD></TR> 291</TABLE> 292 293</TD></TR> 294 295<TR><TD valign=top colspan=3> <br> 296Another detail:<br> 297<img src="shermangewehr.jpg" WIDTH="499" HEIGHT="131"><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> 298When Kellner leaves the cupola he holds a rifle in his hand. But he loses it and the rifle falls down onto the street next to the Sherman. <p> 299 300<table border=0> 301<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=210 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=top style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video popup:<br><a href="commander.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','320','320','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Kellner's exit</a> 302</TD></TR> 303</TABLE> 304<br> 305 306</TD></TR> 307 308<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top><img src="cologne_runners_400.jpg" width="401" height="281"></a><br> 309<b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Courtesy of The U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division History Website. Photo by Fred Ramage/Getty Images 310</b><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> The crew of another Sherman tank standing on the left side of the street tries to help the other crew.<p> </TD> 311</TR> 312 313<TR>
313<TD colspan=2 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 314The soldiers and a medic try to help Kellner in a bomb crater near the Sherman, but he passes away <img src="rechts2.jpg" width="10" height="9"><br>The driver Patrick and the loader Speer die just when the shell hits.<br>On the Gettyimages website there's a picture showing the dead Patrick sitting on the driver chair, head outside the driver hatch, in addition the two bullet holes.<p> 315 316<table border=0> 317<tr><td width=45><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="weblink.jpg" width="38" height="30" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=200 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=middle style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Weblink to Wikipedia:<br> 318<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_soldier_and_tank_driver_Julian_Patrick_of_Kentucky,_a_member_of_the_3rd_US_Armored_Division,_killed_in_action_inside_his_tank_on_March_6,_1945_during_the_tank_duel_at_the_Cathedral_of_Cologne._(37436352374).png" target="_new" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Photo dead Patrick</a> - nothing for sensitive people !</TD></TR> 319</TABLE> 320 321</TD> 322<TD width=310 align=center valign=top> 323<img src="kellner2.jpg" width="208" height="198"><br> 324<b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Source: Magazine "After the Battle #104"</b><br> 325</TD> 326</TR> 327 328<TR><TD colspan=3 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 329PFC (Private First Class) Julian H. Patrick was born in Magoffin County, KY, on April 29, 1921. He was the youngest of 4 brothers serving in WWII. The three other brothers survived WWII. Julian was first buried in Belgium, his body returned in 1947 to the USA and interred in the family cemetery in Salyersville, KY. 330</td></tr> 331 332 333<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br><img src="AWMphoto.jpg" width="500" height="681"></a><br> 334<b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Photo courtesy of Australian War Memorial </b><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> 335An US Army soldier is looking down the street Komödienstrasse, where the Sherman just had hit. The Sherman and its crew had passed this area where the soldier now stands just a few minutes before, not knewing their imminent end... </TD> 336</TR> 337 338<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 339Only the two Sherman crew members Griffin and Gialluca survived the incident with injuries.<br> 340</TD></TR> 341 342<TR><TD colspan=3> 343<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"><b>2.) Skirmish Pershing vs. Panther</b></span><p> 344</TD></TR> 345 346<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 347In a parallel street the US-troops from E Co, 32nd A.R., 3rd AD hear about this incident in Komödienstrasse.<p> 348 349<img src="brennsherman6.jpg" width="400" height="300"><br> 350<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> They just have reached street Gereonstrasse, when the Sherman on Komödienstrasse was hit. Smoke goes up from that area (arrow).<p> 351 352<table border=0> 353<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=210 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=top style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video popup:<br><a href="qualmdom.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','620','620','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Smoke going up in close-up shot</a> 354</TD></TR> 355</TABLE><p> 356 357They move forward to street An den Dominikanern...<br> 358<img src="anfahrt1.jpg" width="250" height="196"><img src="telefonbild.jpg" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="111"><br>... and receive the command, to approach and attack the Panther tank with the help of a Pershing tank<p> 359 360<table> 361<tr><td valign=bottom> 362<img src="pantherstart.jpg" WIDTH="249" HEIGHT="165"><br> 363<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> The lurking Panther 364</td> 365<td valign=bottom><img src="pershingpanzer.jpg" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="151"><br> 366<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> The T26E3 Pershing tank 367</td></tr> 368</table> 369 370<br> 371</TD>
371</TR> 372 373<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 374 375<table> 376<tr><td valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 377<p> 378What happened the last minutes before the upcoming tank duel ?<p> 379 380The US troops are only 200 - 300 m away from Marzellenstraße which leads to the central place at the cathedral where the German Panther tank now is located. US Army Signal Corps cameraman Jim Bates wants to film the upcoming tank duel. <p> <p> 381Jim Bates: 382</td><td valign=top width=160 align=center><img src="161-3315.jpg" width="150" height="192"></td><td valign=top> 383<b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Courtesy: <a href="http://photos.ppld.org" target="_new" style="FONT-SIZE: 9px">photos.ppld.org</a>, Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District, 161-3315.</a></b> 384<br><img src="links2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Jim Bates 1972 385</td></tr> 386</table> 387 388</TD></TR> 389 390<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br> 391<font color=gray>A Tank Commander named Robert Early from E Company 32nd. Armored Regiment went on foot to investigate. I asked to go along and we went on the mezzanine of a building and saw the tank. He told me to stay there and he would come back in his tank and try to put the German tank out of commission and I could photograph it. He had one of the new M-26 Pershings with a ninety-mm gun. Sgt. Early said he would turn into the square under me, stop and fire at the German tank.</font><b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"><br>Source: <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~3adspearhead/JimBates2.html" target="_new" style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Website by Charles R. Corbin Jr.</a></b> 392</TD></TR> 393 394<TR><TD colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <p><img src="hausklein.jpg" width="250" height="155"><br> 395<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> This is the building of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, where Bates and Early watched the German tank and the surroundings.</TD></TR> 396 397<TR><TD colspan=3> </TD></TR> 398 399<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 400<p> 401At this time the German Tank crew is waiting what happens and observes the surroundings.<p> 402 403<img src="sammelplatz.jpg" width="500" height="170"><br> 404<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> View today from the window where Bates took his famous movie. The blue dot was the place of the Panther was lying in wait for the enemy. Red dot the place where the US-troops were waiting in Street An den Dominikanern.<p> 405 406When Early comes back to his tank he gives last instructions to his crew and starts the mission. The Pershing tank approaches the crossing An den Dominikanern / Marzellenstraße. Jim Bates:<br> 407</TD></TR> 408 409<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br> 410<font color=gray>When his tank came in the square under me the German tank began to traverse the gun.</font><br> 411</TD></TR> 412 413<TR><TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 414<p> 415Pershing gunner Cpl. Clarence Smoyer:<br> 416</TD></TR> 417 418<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br><IMG SRC="smoyer.jpg" width="83" height="102" ALT="Smoyer" align=left><img src="links2.jpg" width="10" height="9"> "Gunner" Clarence Smoyer:<br> 419<font color=gray>Shortly before our T26 "Pershing" tank destroyed the German Mark V Panther tank in the Cologne Cathedral square, the same German tank destroyed one of our Sherman tanks and killed three of its crew. When this happened, our crew was ordered to go down the adjacent street and destroy the Panther. We were told to just move into the intersection far enough to fire into the side of the enemy tank, which had its gun facing up the other street. However, as we entered the intersection, our driver had his periscope turned toward the Panther and saw their gun turning to meet us. 420When I turned our turret, I was looking into the Panther's gun tube; so instead of stopping to fire, our driver drove into the middle of the intersection so we wouldn't be a sitting target.</font><b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"><br>Source: <a href="http://www.3ad.com" target="_new" style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">3rd Armored Division Website - www.3ad.com</a></b> 421</TD></TR> 422 423<TR>
423<TD colspan=3 valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> 424The German tank crew discovers the tank the same time when it is leaving the cover of the destroyed houses in street An den Dominikanern. <p> 425 426<img src="pershingpantherneu.jpg" width="520" height="553"><br> 427<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> Photo montage of images of the Signal Corps and Archives NARA.<br> 428This is the sight that an observer might have had in this moment. The two tanks were facing. The panther is lurking in the background and in the foreground the Pershing moves into the intersection.<p> 429 430Both tanks are in direct visual contact now. The first shot now will decide the fate of the other tank, the fate of five soldiers and their families. 431 432<p> 433What's the reason the Panther didn't shot immediately ?<p> 434 435As the Pershing gunner Smoyer said, the gun was turning to meet the Pershing.<br> 436What's the reason the Panther crew hesitated ?<br> 437Panther commander Bartelborth is already dead, so you can not ask him. His daughter, however, told in the documentary "Köln 1945 Nahaufnahmen" that her father had told the family during his lifetime, the tank that had appeared in that situation on the street corner, would have been a German tank. He probably expected a Sherman tank and the tank was not a Sherman tank. So he was very surprised. 438And so it is clear that Bartelborth had not give the order to fire because he did not recognize the Pershing as an US tank immediately.<p> 439 440A German tank commander did not recognize an US tank ?<br> 441Well, the Pershing had his first appearance in Europe only a few weeks previously, and only in small numbers. Many soldiers did not know this new tank type. The flow of information at this time, near the end of the war, was not comparable with the present times. Gunner Smoyer writes in his memoirs on the 3ad.c
441om website:<p> 442 443<table BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"> 444<TR><TD> 445<b style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif"> 446"U.S. troops and German civilians were in awe of seeing the M26. Some troops thought it was a captured German tank."</b><br> 447<b style="FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Quelle: <a href="http://www.3ad.com/memoirs/smoyer.pages/combat.story.htm" target="_new" style="FONT-SIZE: 9px;">3ad.com</a></b> 448</td></tr> 449</table><p> 450 451Even US soldiers mixed up the Pershing with a German tank sometimes! Thus, it is not so far-fetched that even the German tank commander Bartelborth was wrong in thinking ...<p> 452 453In any case this delay is crucial for the fate of the German tank. Fractions of seconds decide between life and death. 454<p> 455</TD></TR> 456 457 458<TR><TD colspan=3 align=middle BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" align=center> <br><img src="information.gif" WIDTH="20" HEIGHT="20" valign=middle> <a href="areal.html" target="_new">Overview battle area</a> <img src="arealvorschau.jpg" WIDTH="106" HEIGHT="84" align=middle><br> </TD></TR> 459<TR><TD colspan=3> </TD></TR> 460 461<TR><TD colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"><img src="3dklein.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="402"><br> 462<img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> On the right side the building of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront where Jim Bates filmed the Panther in his tank duel movie. The Panther tank location is marked blue on the left side. The Pershing now is located on the crossing in front of the building.<p>Jim Bates:</TD></TR> 463 464 465<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" colspan=3 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify"> <br> 466<font color=gray>Cpl. Clarence Smoyer the gunner, did not wait for his tank to stop but fired before the gun was aimed at him.</font><br> 467</TD></TR> 468 469<TR><TD colspan=3> <br> 470</TD></TR> 471 472<TR><TD valign=top width=250 style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer1.jpg" width="250" height="193"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> The Pershing tank drives to the crossing An den Dominikanern / Marzellenstrasse and fires toward the German Panther at the end of Marzellenstrasse. Distance between the two tanks: 110 m / 360 ft. 473 474<table border=0> 475<tr><td width=38><IMG ALIGN=Middle SRC="HTML5.gif" width="25" height="36" BORDER="0" ALT=""></td><TD width=210 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" valign=middle style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Video popup:<br><a href="kombi2.html" onclick="NewWindow(this.href,'name','620','620','yes');return false;" onFocus="if (this.blur) this.blur()" style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: 'verdana', 'tahoma', sans serif">Shot and 3. hit</a> 476</TD></TR> 477</TABLE> 478<br> 479</TD><TD width=40> </TD> 480<TD valign=top style="text-justify : inter-word; text-align:justify;"><img src="panzer2.jpg" width="250" height="188"></a><br><img src="oben2.jpg" width="9" height="10"> A crew member of the German tank flees. Movie pictures taken from cameraman James Bates<br> </TD></TR> 481 482</table> 483 484<table> 485<tr><td width=150> </td><td BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"> 486The duel Pershing vs. Panther goes on, more information on the <A HREF="colpicwar2b.html"><b>next page</b></a></td> 487<td width=10> </td><td><A HREF="colpicwar2b.html"><img src="weiter.jpg" WIDTH="42" HEIGHT="35" border=0></a></td></tr> 488</table> 489 490<p> <p> 491 492<center> 493<TABLE BORDER=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2> 494<TR><TD width=32 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"><A HREF="colpicwar2b.html"><img src="buttontank.jpg" height="31" width="32" border=0></a></TD><TD valign=top BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"><A HREF="colpicwar2b.html">Tank duel</A><br><font size=-1>next page </font></TD><TD width=32 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"><A HREF="colpicwar3.html"><img src="buttontank.jpg" height="32" width="32" border=0></a></TD><TD valign=top BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"><A HREF="colpicwar3.html">Special 2</A><br><font size=-1>Tank duel blow-by-blow</font></TD></TR> 495<TR><TD width=32 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE"><A HREF="colpicwar.html"><img src="colwar.jpg" height="32" width="32" border=0></a></TD><TD valign=top BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE">
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