Bombing campaign. Europe & North Africa; Scope and content: Two assault guns knocked out by 9th Air Force fighter-bombers near Modrath, Germany, to ease the advance of the 1st Army to Cologne. Infantrymen, one with a top hat picked up in a nearby town, sit on the disabled vehicle resting on the rim of the crater made by a bomb. General notes: Two German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G assault guns knocked out by the 9th Air Force at Mödrath, Northrhine-Wespthalia (Germany). The original village of Mödrath (ca N 50 53' 6 E 6 43' 17) was destroyed for open-pit mining in 1956.

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