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Cologne’s Split-Second Duel: When a New U.S. Tank Faced Germany’s Last Panther

March 1945. In the ruined streets of Cologne, with the cathedral towering in the background, a brand-new American Pershing ...

Here's how the first concert organ in the U.S. ended up in a Boston suburb

Methuen Memorial Music Hall​ was built by a very wealthy man just to house one spectacular instrument - The Great Organ.
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The Last Panther: Cologne’s Final Battle Beneath the Cathedral

In March 1945, as Allied forces reached the edge of Cologne, one German Panther tank made a final, defiant stand beneath the ...
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My journey down the Rhine River with WMBD viewers

I’ve just returned from a trip to Europe with about 20 WMBD viewers. The trip was a two week journey that had us flying to Switzerland then hopping on a river ...
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Japanese uni finances Cologne Cathedral gargoyle after graffiti spat

The head of a Japanese university visited the world-renowned cathedral in Cologne on Thursday, almost a decade after two Japanese students caused a national sensation in their homeland by writing ...
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WWII bombs defused in Cologne after city's largest postwar evacuation

A person works by a cordoned off area near the Cologne Cathedral, after the discovery of World War II-era bombs during exploratory work, affecting over 20,000 people, who had to be evacuated on June 4 ...
CNN

Cologne evacuation order lifted after three World War II bombs defused

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs. The American bombs – two ...
The Hill

Cologne starts its biggest evacuation since 1945 to defuse WWII bombs

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — More than 20,000 residents were being evacuated from part of Cologne’s city center on Wednesday as specialists prepared to defuse three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II ...