Battle for Cologne - tank duel v2020
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2020
- Tank duel at the Cologne cathedral March 06, 1945. New version of the old video (only new music and longer sub titles - many people did not like the other music or found sub titles too short)
5 presentation parts show different analyses.
Attention:
Original film scenes show injured persons. May not suitable for sensitive people
More info about the incidents on www.anicursor.com/colpicwar2.html
Older version:
• Battle for Cologne - t...
All the explanations, mapping, and stabilization are a real service. Thanks a lot
The best version Ive seen on the internet,well done, the horrific scene of the tank commander losing his leg stays in your mind,
Yes, a gruesome scene indeed. Well, Cologne was used to witnessing horrific scenes since the bomber campaign had begun in early 1942 and ended on 2 March 1945.
Also the one where the Panther gunner is literally blown up in front of the camera man’s eyes.
Tank commander lost his leg? I tough he jumped down
@@AverageTigerTank scene 0.35 the tank commander crawls out of the turret his left leg his is destroyed as he falls from the Sherman tank.
Your right the German tank commander climbed out of the turret and jumped down.
This tank duel was covered in the book, "Spearhead", which was interviewed the Pershing's gunner, and German survivors. Andy Rooney was near the Sherman when it was hit.
3:17 love when the cameraman pans up to the cathedral.
Yes, cathedral seems to be intact but it wasn't. However up to our days it is told that church towers showed the way home for those people who were evacuated because of air raids. There is a very popular and sentimental song about that feeling. "Heimweh nach Köln" (Homesick for Cologne) by Willy Ostermann. In the present it is sung during Fastelovend (carnival) in Cologne. You should join this wonderful time mostly in February
@@michaelengel3407 the cathedral was intact though. Since all the windows were taken out all the pressure waves from bombs went right through. The cathedral only had minor damages
@@musiccer7446 Not at all. Check "Domplombe" please
TANKS for editing the video and making the subtitles longer
I walk this street almost every day and think of the events that happened back then
@St Matthew lmao US didnt Kick their asses in any way.
Today, the Komödienstraße is more than twice as wide as it was before it was almost completely destroyed in World War 2. There used to be a tramway going through.
@St Matthew lol ok another american propaganda bot nothing to worry about.
Great job putting this together. Thank you for your effort.
Wonderful work all around. Thank you for making this available.
You did a lot of video work on this. well done.
Thank you for the re upload 11 years ago
Those guys gave their tomorrows for our today. Never forget them!
Oy vey
Great work!
Its so incredibale for a german like me who also lives in cologne to see what happend in streets i already was.
RIP to all the brave men who died in the war. Nobody deserves to go through what these poor men did...
36 million Russians 5 millions Americans 4.9 million Germans and 62 million Chinese died in this war or even more victims. Cabal Zionism won the war.
@@icemangtr1 sureeee......
@@icemangtr1 Where the fuck do you have the ridiculous number of US deaths from? The Soviet Union lost about 30 million, Germany between 6 & 8.8 million, China most likely about 20-30 million. The US lost 418.000 people, very well documented numbers. oO Also, bullshit antisemitism on your last statement.
Actually not only brave men died in Cologne but also brave women and brave children. 20000 were dead after 262 allied air raids.
@@icemangtr1 where do you get these numbers?
I wish there was more footage of M26 Pershings when they serve in WW2 .
I think the only thing which could stop them were King Tigers.
Great work!
A Nashorn also killed a Pershing. It carries the same gun as a Kingtiger.
King tigers were barely even real
@@TheNavalAviator If I recall, the shell from the Nashorn passed through the driver's legs of the Pershing, with the entire crew escaping with only minor injuries. The Nashorn took off after it's first shot because the tank commander couldn't tell if they did serious damage to the tank or not and wanted to bail.
@@jeffsmith9351 no they were real all right it was just too little too late
@@RRAAZZAA he referred to how scarce the tiger ii was
Жёстко. Они вылазят с танка под огнём пулемёта, некуда деваться.
I really wanted a new version of the video! Did you improve video quality? It looks clearer and brighter to me, it may be just an impression
Thank you very much. I worked the original *avi file and uploaded *avi. This may caused a better quality on youtube ...
@@anicursor Great work!
Anicursor what's the old video music? I like the piano but I can't find it??
WAR IS HELL and it isn't often we see real actual footage from what was surely day to day brutality during WW2. So much of the brutality and the stories are simply lost to history.
Excellent video even though I like Panther tanks a lot. My god, what a brew-up.
Fun fact : the panther didn’t shoot the Pershing because they thought it was a German tank because of its size and didn’t look like a Sherman
In the book „Spearhead” by Adam Makos it says that Panther’s crew saw Pershing but the commander thought it was german tank. That is why they didn’t shoot first.
I just finished reading that chapter in Spearhead. It's an excellent book.
Well done
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I am from Brazil
I like you video
wow! one of the shots hits the panther right in the muzzle break just as the last 2 crew are exiting the tank. they must be the 2 that died as you can see all 5 make it out before the kill shot brews it up. you see at least 3 guys running away behind it at different times.
Poor gunner
Best one yet
Awesome...
Damn id love to have seen both crews meet
Very few Pershings made it across the Atlantic in time to be used. If this had been a Sherman versus the Panther the result might have been very different.
Not really.
With a side shot the result would have been the same.
@@peterson7082 Oberleutnant Wilhelm Bartelborth (the commander of the Panther tank) confirmed that they didnt shoot the pershing as they didnt recognise it as an american tank, so if it had been a sherman the Panther would have shot first, with a very different result.
@@tankadar think it had anything to do with the muzzle break on the pershing ?
@@treshmiranda699 also, probably
the third shot was really brutal
title of the music
Great Work. Interesting that In many of the presented versions of this event it is claimed that some or even all of the Panther crew were killed and burned up in / on the tank. This footage shows that they all bailed out and ran away. Even the cameraman who filmed this footage claims different things happened than what are show. For example: he claimed that the Panther (although he calls it a Tiger) commander had his legs severed by the first shell and he burned up on top of the tank. I guess you really cannot rely on human recollection of high stress events.
Very good indeed.
Where s the coment from the original vid?
Behind this great battle there is a sad story of a young woman trapped in the middle of a tank battle between gustav schafer and clarence smoyer the woman was killed as she tried to save herself and both gunners blamed themselves for what happened to the young woman on that day both sides suffer great lost including civilians in this battle....
Yes, truly sad. Well she wasn't the first civilian victim in cologne. That poor girl was just one of twenty thousand. People of Cologne were used to see hurt and dead people in a up to 90 percent destroyed city.
i believe that tank duel was earlier in the day as the building the pershing shoots through collapses afterwards. some of the reports talk about the battle flaring up a little while later. i think this panther shooting the sherman is the battle flaring up again.
Awesome footage actual footage is always better, recreations are good too but this is outstanding, for it is real. I will say yarnhub pinned it pretty good though.
would anybody have the names of the crew members please. I do "an investigation
Which tanks? Crew members of the _T26E3 Pershing_ (E/3Δ32Δ7) at the time as listed in _"Spearhead:"_ commanding the tank was S/SGT Robert Earley, gunner CPL. Clarence Smoyer, loader PFC. John Deriggi, driver T/5. (CPL.) William McVey, and bow gunner PFC. Homer Davis. The knocked out _M4's_ (F/3Δ32Δ1) crews names were: tank commander 2LT. Karl Kellner, gunner CPL. John Gialluca, loader T/5. (CPL.) Curtis Speers, driver PFC. Julian Patrick, and bow gunner PFC. Oliver Griffin. Both Griffin and Gialluca survived the war, and the commander died within the hour following the destruction of their _M4A1(76)W._ Both Patrick and Speers were killed by the _Panther's_ two shots and machine gun fire. The _Panther's_ (of Panzerbrigade 106 FHH) crew largely remain unidentified. As the commander is the only name we know in full. There was the commander Oberleutnant Wilhelm Bartelborth and a driver referred to as "Konigs." We know nothing else of the rest of the crew. Only Konigs and Bartelborth survived the war- the gunner died trying to exit the tank, and the bow gunner was never seen leaving. The loader died later that day in a field hospital.
@@peterson7082thank you very much for your answer Interview. But I had seen an interview where you could see the radio operator (gunner) of the balterbooth crew I remember although his name was not "konigs" that is to say that there would be several people identified. And I also think "Konigs" was the driver. I'm not really on my words. And thank you again for answering me.
@@paulpatry2826 The German veteran you might be referring to was not in the _Panther._ I think you're referring to Gustav Schäfer of one of the handful of _Panzerkampfwagen IV_ in the town.
@@peterson7082 Oh Thank you for this information. But I always said to myself that if we knew that the charger died in the hospital, I for my part think that there are names. Because we know he's asleep in the hospital. I'm not sure if you can understand my sentence
@@paulpatry2826 No problem. I think I get what you're trying to say. The information of the loader to be honest is not clear either- but it was suggested in interviews with the late Oberleutnant Bartelborth's daughter that he did not survive the war. From the footage it looks like he might have been hurt. So I might very well be wrong on that particular case. But author Adam Makos' _"Spearhead"_ suggests that he soon died of his injuries, which I would think might have been within the day. However it might have been within a week, or possibly several.
If you want to read further into it- this video's creator runs a website called "anicursor" (same as channel) and several articles under the title of "Dierk's Page Special" which covers the tank fighting and bombings of Cologne in great detail. Adam Mako's book _"Spearhead"_ released last year. Admittedly it's mostly from the American perspective but that's where a lot of surviving information comes from. He also gives a short biographical chapter on Gustav Schäfer himself.
Again, no problem. This is a topic I am passionate about and am willing to answer relevant questions. Stay safe and have a good one.
The Panther gunner was killed as he was climbing out of the main hatch, did he fall and land on the turret? Did I see that right?
I think he probably fell down into the turret since he probably got instant severe wounds from the shrapnel of the 90mm shell of the Pershing's gun. And obviously the tank got set on fire, so it's a pretty gruesome fate if he did fall back down there
what are the names of the german crew?
Please look here for more details
anicursor.com/colpicwar2.html
That panther crew never played War Thunder.
I love Edit
Whoever is interested in this event should read the book "Spearhead" - great book about few tank crews in WW2, including this exact Pershing.
Watch the full film. All the panzer crew got out.
yes, but one is on the turret, and one the front deck when the 2nd shot hits the panthers muzzle break.
The gunner dies?
Похоже на першинге сильно боялись пантеры, столько снарядов влупили ей в бок. Першинг стоял к пантере лбом.
Even more interesting than the tank battle is the fact that Cologne was hit by 262 air raids during the war. The last one on 2 March 1945. Some parts of the city were destroyed by up to 90 percent. 20000 dead were to be mourned. The price for entering the war was well paid. A single tank battle near the heavily damaged cathedral ? No longer worth mentioning.
Totally agree Michael, German citizens inc kids suffered targeted open murder when Harris and Churchill decided to literally go down this sordid path.
War is Hell, yes it is BUT the so called good guys did not need to be in Satans bed.
From Australia
You are acting like a bot
Does not need any music, especially whatever this unsuitable music is.
how bout some manners geez
@@rayleslie354 ua-cam.com/video/eYkqUG8DLIA/v-deo.html
@@rayleslie354 The music IS distracting. Too loud too.
read the book Spearhead
Did the Sherman crew survive ..??
War of the Powerful country ...to God be the glory...
to all viewers hit likes.....
танкисты Пантеры герои до последнего держали свою позицию не струсили и не сбежали а выполнили приказ.Такое можно только в кино увидеть а по-настоящему это редкость.
Imagine supporting Nazis 💀
Lmao they lost
i dont get the point of tanks, your better off with an artillery gun and armour
Originally design as an answer to stalemate during WW1 trench warfare by mounting an artillery with a farm tractor that uses caterpillar threads so it can travel through muddy terrains in trench warfare.
Just image what the atmosphere was like inside each tank during that moment. One full of screaming Germans, the other full of screaming Americans
Pershing vs tiger....nice
pershing vs panther.
Mmmm Pasty
the city is called Köln not Cologne.
In English it is spelled that way. Anicursor (Dierk) is German and uses both in his articles and in the older video's description.
Well, the city is not called Köln but Kölle
На мобильный телефон снимали.
Panzer killed many
1 tiger tank is worth 11 sherman m4's
until it breaks down.
That's a myth
Nope this is a total myth. 76mm (most common armament on M4's at the time) could really easily take down tiger front armour from around 500 meters, making tigers completely useless and cost unreflective on the front of france.
Also this battle is between two m4's and pershing against 1 panther, not the tiger.
That’s a myth
CAN THAT DAMN DISCO MUSIC PLEASE!! IT'S TOO LOUD AND NOT APPROPRIATE FOR A SERIOUS FILM THAT SHOWS A BRAVO AMERICAN TANKER BEING BRUTALLY MURDERED IN BATTLE!!
Killers killed innocent people and ran away and lived after war....Not a fair reality.
How do you know who they killed? Were you there watching them and keeping records? How did you manage that when at the same time you were following around the American crew so you could assure everyone that they didn't kill anybody else?
Oh, so you're just making ignorant assumptions that anybody who was German back then went around killing helpless innocent people, is that it?
@@mikearmstrong8483 from "Jewish holocaust survivor testimony", from war documents, from movies which based on trues. I don't need to assume, war is war, invading means you come to other people's land illegally by killing, especially ww2.
@@benbai8194
So, you are saying that some Jewish person saw that specific tank crew, those exact 5 guys in the video, killing innocent people at random, and then wrote a book about it?
You are completely missing the point. I'm not saying the German nation weren't invaders and didn't commit atrocities. But you said that the murderers killed innocent people and ran away and lived, and by the context of your comment in this thread you are referring to the German tank crew in the video.
How do you know that they ever killed anybody before that Sherman crew? You don't. You don't know what combat they had been in, whether they supported the National Socialist Party, what they had done before or during the war. And your response to me proves my point; that you are implying that every single German was involved in the holocaust and personally went around killing jews.
By your logic, every single American back then was responsible for slaughtering millions of Japanese.
To put it simply, you should quit being a bigot and judge people for their individual actions and stop assuming that just because someone is a certain nationality that means they are responsible for all the evils of all their people.
@@mikearmstrong8483 in this video, some of those nazi tank crews survived after war, this is total unfair, do you know how many civilians died during the war because of theirs invading? Ironically those nazi soldiers survived but millions of innocent people died already. I think they should be Sent to death to compensate those innocent souls.
@@mikearmstrong8483 I am not talking only this video, I am saying all nazi soldiers should be trialled after war what they triggered. Unfortunalty, not all of them been sent to jails due to huge number and short of food, delivery tools to treat those nazi POWs, then they were lucky to avoid judgement. I d rather they would been all jailed and hanged to sorry those died civilians.
What a convenience that the guy's leg was blown off exactly at the knee. Yeah, that's because he was an amputee actor and that's where a leg is surgically amputated haha. Somehow the blast performs a surgical amputation that leaves the rest of the guy's body completely intact as he leaps down with great dexterity as if he already knows how to get around on one leg. Also he's not bleeding. Yeah this is fake.
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The commander died actually shortly after he got out.
The 2 crew who died on the tank was the bow gunner and the gunner which you can see trying to get out of the tank but sadly enough when he tried exiting the second shot was fired and he died at that exact moment
@@user-mp3eh1vb9w I'm always trying to falsify the conclusion that wars are fake but....so far it can't be done. I spent about a hundred hours looking into it and could never see any proof that combat was happening except for one time: Yeah this tank commander comes jumping out of his exploded tank and his LEG'S MISSING! So now we have proof that wars are real except....HAHAH! No, it proves the opposite. The guy was just in an exploded tank that got shot by another tank and yet the blast seems to have perfectly amputated his leg exactly at the knee with surgical precision as well as cauterize it so that there's no blood at all! ahh-hahahah! Not only that but this wicked blast didn't damage him in any other way...allowing him to scamper off the tank as if he's had lots of practice getting around on one leg even though it just got blown off. Yeah, he's an amputee actor, clearly. Oh, one more thing: He really takes his time getting off the tank even though another blast is imminent...yeah the guy would be JUMPING off that tank haha.
This 'caught on film' moment seems to be the only evidence of violence or serious combat injury occurring in all of World War 2. It also proves that they aren't withholding gruesome footage because it's too graphic to show to us...after all they're showing us this guy with his leg just blown off. So why not a ton of such imagery? How did World War 2 happen and the only proof that anyone got injured or killed was this one guy with a surgical amputation??? HAHAH.
It's a bit like the Apollo moon hoax, Michael...Why aren't they defying gravity? Oh, wait! They ARE! In ONE moment from one of the missions an astronaut jumps way higher than you could on Earth! ....Except the ground is obscured by the lunar rover and he's clearly jumping off a trampoline! AH-AHAHAHAH! So the ONE TIME an astronaut defies gravity actually just proves that it is a hoax. After all, this moment establishes that they can leap very high so...WHY is that the only time we ever see it? They should be able to do this all the time, right?
So it is with this poor tank commander...He's seriously injured on camera but...there's like ten thousand cameras rolling during hundreds of battles in World War Two! How could this be the ONLY proof of injury? Obviously it was staged and was a movie scene.
The key to falsifying the claim that wars are hoaxes is to find convincing visual evidence of combat where real injury or death occurs in a gruesome and undeniable way...Considering the amount of warfare and cameras filming it over a century of time this should be an easy accomplishment. But...it's IMPOSSIBLE. That's what I'm saying: War is too graphic and violent to never produce convincing images of the casualties. There are also too many wars and battles for there to never be any evidence of an enemy ever recorded on film. In all cases, we are only seeing one side...the enemy is somehow totally invisible at all times. This is IMPOSSIBLE. How can there never be any enemy that is ever visible in any way? We will see the one side shelling the enemy, for example...but never will the enemy shell back at them. What? The enemy is too nice to return fire??? Maybe so. Maybe they are sweethearts! HAHA!
I'm always open to new evidence and as I said, I watched at least a hundred hours of videos on UA-cam from three major wars. If you ever come across any evidence please let me know. Maybe you'll see a man explode as he steps on a mine or gets hit by a RPG. Maybe a guy's arm will fly off as he gets hit by a large caliber bullet. Maybe a nostril-trimming accident. Haha! Seriously, Michael, if you find a guy hurt himself while trimming his nostril hairs during a battle I want to see that because it will be the WORST injury I ever saw in any of these war footage videos.
The point is that it should be very routine to come across clear proof that an enemy exists and is killing/being killed in battles. Is not there an enemy equipped with guns and bombs? Is this not a lethal situation??? But where IS this enemy? Where is his bullets ripping through chests? His bombs blowing off legs? As far as I could ever tell the best equipment the enemy possessed was invisibility cloaks HAHA.
I could get back to it and try watching hundreds more hours of footage of completely different wars than the ones I've viewed so far...but what happens is you reach a point where you're like: "Okay, I get it now. There is NO war. It is military training exercises being passed off as war. And no matter how much I watch there will never be any signs of an enemy or serious injuries or deaths occurring on camera."
@@johnellizz hurt itself in its confusion
@@johnellizz holy fek dude, seek help
Fake video
Bro what?
Its not fake
Believe me, almost complete destruction of Cologne wasn't fake.
Real footage
Poor gunner