A Panther tank awaits in ambush blocked from view by the barrel and upper deck of the Sherman on the left.
Within a few seconds, the scene will look like this:
Here is the video of the ensuing ambush and counterattack by an M-26 Pershing accompanied by an interview with one of the Pershing crewmembers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8a29-1OM9Y
The next video is from a documentary in which the photographer, Jim Bates was interviewed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEqwLLFNC3w
That video is one I had not seen before. Grim stuff; I wonder about the propriety of bringing up certain things that an elderly man would have had no control over (or knowledge of) when he was a young soldier. Maybe that's just me.
My Uncle C wrote about a trip in a jeep which included an incident involving a civilian driving a car in a hot spot. Fortunately, nobody paid the ultimate price (that he was aware of):
"... in doing so I failed to find the right road that led off the main road, and as we were going down the main road towards Metz, some good GI shouted, “Where in (the) hell are you going?” so we stopped and asked him why. He said to wait a couple of minutes and we would find out. In about two minutes there were five explosions ahead of us and he said that was German mortar fire and we had better turn around and get out of there. We stayed for a few minutes, and more of those things kept coming in, so I decided it was not too comfortable here and headed back to my own area. Many a time since (then) I have thanked that soldier for stopping me. The odd thing about this whole incident was that some darned Frenchman came by with a car and drove on down the road, and he wouldn’t stop, so we let him go-- and typically French luck let them get through before some fire landed near there."
Mr. niteowl77