Title:BOMB DAMAGE RECORD NO 11 ORIGIN OES : Cologne Photographed by No 4 FPU March 9th to 21st 1945 [Main Title]
Film Number:CBS 56
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Summary: Bomb damage assessment film of Cologne taken by RAF cameramen, March, 1945.
Description: I. Shots of night and daylight raids on Cologne, including a panorama of the Rhine.
II. Aerial shots of Cologne cathedral (standing almost intact amid a sea of devastation), factories, housing estates and a canalside wharf.
III. Devastated railway yards, seen from both air and ground.
IV. The city centre: Aachenerstrasse.
V. Panning shot of the Hohenstaufen Ring; GIs are present.
VI. Damaged water pumping stations.
VII. Ruined factories in the Ehrenfeld area.
VIII. Ruined cable factory in the Nippes district.
