Image: Wesel 1945

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Description: The city of Wesel, devastated by Allied bombing in preparation for the crossing of the Rhine on 22-23 March 1945. Original description: "Walls of houses of Wesel still stand, as do the churches, but a great part of the town was destroyed when the German commander forced the Allied troops to fight their way street by street through the ruins. Germany, 1945."
Title: Wesel 1945
Credit: This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 535793. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− U.S. DefenseImagery photo VIRIN: HD-SN-99-02995 National Museum of the U.S. Air Force photo 050606-F-1234P-060
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