Allied Forces Enter Berlin: Tanks on the Berlinerstrasse

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Haacker

British Combine

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Picture taken at a Fourth of July Celebration at the Adolph Hitler Barracks in Berlin, Germany, formerly the Kaiser Wilhelm Cadet School. Picture taken on the Berlinerstrasse at the point where General Omar Bradley stopped to watch some of the tanks of the Second Armored Division pass on their way to the heart of Berlin. Here he stands on the left of the group with his officers and Major General Floyd Parks (second from the left), who commands the American troops in Berlin, as a new type of tank carrying a 76 MM gun passes by.

Date(s)

July 4, 1945

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Allied Forces Enter Berlin: Tanks on the Berlinerstrasse