16-238 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

U.S. Army soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division trudge over the ruins of Nuremburg. The city was severely damaged in Allied strategic bombing from 1943 to 1945. On 2 January 1945, the medieval city center was systematically bombed by the British Royal Air Force and the U.S.Army Air Forces and about 90% of it was destroyed in only one hour, with 1,800 residents killed and roughly 100,000 displaced. In February 1945, additional attacks followed. In total, over 6,000 Nuremberg residents are estimated to have been killed in air raids. Nuremburg was captured following the Battle of Nuremberg, lasting from 17 April 1954 to 21 April 1945, by the U.S. 3rd, 42nd and 45th Infantry Divisions which fought house-to-house and block-by-block against determined German resistance, causing further urban devastation to the already bombed and shelled buildings. Nuremburg, Bavaria, Germany. April 1945.

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