Battle of Cologne

[diramonsky]

Caught the Panther with his pants down. If it would have been angled right this would have been much more interesting footage. and a real tankbattle. This was more an ambush.

[MAnuciao79]

He sais the war in Colone was hie best part of his life...poor man

[1987jkilla]

this panther should not haved revealed his weak side armor

[grazyarnie]

How active is a fighting when the commanding officers wishes to pee into the river rhine...and he did and no one disturbed his infantile wish.....so were where hostile actions...?

Again I personally hate the Nazis..but the way the US troops acted with our civilians I dont feel any sympathy to the US.....I love the politics afterwards but I hate the Morgenthau behaviour and attitute during a lot of missions

[bv141a]

@grazyarnie how brave a tank crew to drive up on a Panther,to get a good film shoot.After surviving Tommy cookers and ronsuns,the US tankers are real confident in their m 26

[grazyarnie]

@bv141a

well I dont want to reduce these actions to a movie-setting....I just wanted to point out that the deeds of the glorious allies not always was the way they all like to celebrate....

[bv141a]

@grazyarnie It's a given that Stalin and Hitler were one way or another criminals,but Robert McNamera burned several million Japanese,another million Korean's,several million Vietnamese,North and South,and more than likly had a hand in flattening Laotian and Cambodian villages as well.Isn't he a criminal?

[askjiir]

He says it was a tiger when it really was a panther... Nooob..

[grazyarnie]

I am glad we were freed from the Nazi scum, the Panther was a threat and needed to be fought against. But that tiny little civil car with women on board wasnt...well USinfantry has its dark tales as well it seems, espescially the third armor behaviour after the death of General Rose..they executed 100 unarmed POWs..actions actually only the SS is known for....anyhow thx for the freedom You brought us...The Wehrmacht wasnt allowed to surrender...so they were easy prey during the last days of WW2

[grazyarnie]

@grazyarnie

would be great to know about from which direction the minus rating came....I have an assumption but concerning to some stupid comments, I have doubts about that..I stick to my attitute: Germany needed to be freed but not all actions were shown and historical justified

[tusk70]

Its so hard for me to see my hometown bleeding.

I recognize some streets and places.

Cologne was such a beautiful town before the war.

What a great historical document!

[diramonsky]

@tusk70

Boofuckinghooo for Cologne. Do you know what a nice city Rotterdam was before you bombed it after Holland's surrender? Germans deserved every bit of destruction they got.

[tusk70]

@diramonsky

So much hate after so many years? I´m an architect and I like Rotterdam very much and I know her history. By the way, I never bombed any dutch town, not my parents or my grandparents.

We (I mean Europe) lost so much fantastic architecture in all this senseless wars!

[corn1971]

At the beginning of the video across the street is a round castle turret looking building.  This is the 2000 yr old SW corner tower of the old roman city wall that once surrounded the city.

[LordButtercracks]

To thier suprise, the Beehive hit at about 75-100 yards and went right into the cooling fins on the engine deck. The flachette cut the fuel system to shreds and the Panther burned.

[LordButtercracks]

The other was taken out from the rear by an M5 Stewart with a 37mm. The Stewart was working with infantry coming up the road to the left of the Pershing supporting it's left flank. A few minutes after the 1st Panther was hit the Stewart stumbled on the back side of the Panther, who was coming down another parallel road behind the Cathedral backwards. The Panther was trying to keep it's nose pointed towards the Pershing waiting to get an ambush shot at the Pershing's side as it came by

[christof139]

T-34/76 had no better a gun then the Sherman with its short 75mm. The long 76mm of the Sherman Easy Eight when it fired HVAP was considered by the Soviets to be a better gun thn the 85mm of the T34/85. The long 76mm firing HVAP could hole a Tiger I at 500m to 1,000 from the fron, and the front of a Panther's turret but not its front glacis plate.

[JASONHEINCHMANNNN]

that was the pershing...a bad ass tank but hardly seen any action...would have did good against the communists if they tried anything.

[TyonKree]

indeed its a panther.

[toolshedcl]

I live in Cologne and its really strange to see how the places looked back then that you come across every day... amazing footage

[tharodsta]

no thanx 2 hitler

[lightandlively]

jameslisk123 FYI, the German tank destroyed here WAS a Tiger. The T-26 Pershing was just a better tank with better armor and a more powerful cannon.

[LordButtercracks]

Its a panther, but they called it a tiger by mistake. often in battle allied crews would call any large german afv a tiger. this is a mk v panther, look at the curved mantlet in front of the turret.

[NPDIvo]

yes your right its a panther!!!

[jameslisk123]

germans had the best tanks,if that tank had been a tiger or king tiger i think it would of been a different story

[LordButtercracks]

it couldnt have crossed the bridges to get from the factory to cologne

it would have run out of fuel

or it would have been a big ass target for a p38 or p47

no tiger iis were not effective

as the germans said, quantity has its own value of quality, and m4s were common, easily repaired and enough to take out 95% of german afvs

[gwillo1]

bull the germans did not have the best tanks ,the russians did with the T34.

[LordButtercracks]

An M5 Stuart with 37mm anti personnel rounds destroyed a Panther in the same day.

I guess having a big gun and armor up front means nothing, so I hope the Big Cat (Tiger and Panther) fanboys stop thinking that its always about the biggest gun and armor.

It isnt.

[asmisss]

probably the Panther got ambushed from behind and as you know the rear armor isnt strong enough for any tank to survive direct hit

[45bang]

show us proof of this.

[LordButtercracks]

Google Beehive Panther Cologne and History forums

You will see it

[KINGD1991]

Its a german Panther tank not a Tiger as the photographer said,^^

but amazing footage.

[combatphotog21]

Wow. Great footage and what a brave man.

[Jcashrulez]

that is amazing footage along with amazing interview.