
limitation for youtube videos, so I had to create fast subtitles to have more time for the action. The time where I published the video (2010) there was a 10 min. Original film scenes show seriously injured persons. 5 presentation parts show different analyses. 10 minutes of interesting film scenes show the destruction of a Sherman tank, the destruction of a Panther tank and the escaping crew members. See the fascinating original film with descriptions. Chronic and analytical presentation of the famous tank duel at the Cologne cathedral. Tank duel at the cathedral, March 06, 1945. Rose innovated the strategy of using a line of tanks to form a moving front, and led the Third Armored Division known as "Spearhead.WWII. The 3rd Armored tanks passed through Duren on the morning of. During the war he became known as the “Immaculate Killer of Nazis.” An armored infantryman of the 3rd Armored Division dismounted and fighting in the rubble of Cologne. Through several enlistments, he moved up the ranks despite anti-Semitism from the community and from his military peers. After dropping out of East High School at age 16, Rose joined the Army. Denver author Marshall Fogel has written a new book, "Major General Maurice Rose: The Most Decorated Battle Tank Commander In US Military History."įogel spoke with Colorado Matters about Rose's life. Army during World War II, Major General Maurice Rose. Most Denverites are familiar with Rose Medical Center, but they probably don’t know the hospital was named after the highest ranking Jewish officer who served in the U.S. Army, whose armour was first to enter the city of Cologne makes a radio check-up on the position from his jeep in a Cologne street, on March 6, 1945.

AP Photo Major General Maurice Rose, Commanding General 3rd Armoured Division, First U.S. During the battle of cologne, a tank duel happened between a German Panther Tank and the newly implemented M26 Pershing Heavy/Medium Tank of the U.S ArmyEnjo.
