Dead driver Julian Patrick is still sitting in his seat in the M4 Sherman tank

Dead driver Julian Patrick is still sitting in his seat in the M4 Sherman tank ...

Would you rather be a part of a tank or bomber crew?

This picture depicts US tank corps member and former driver of a M4 Sherman tank of the 3rd US Armored Division, Julian Patrick.

Patrick was killed in action during the iconic tank battle at the cathedral of Cologne. Patrick and all the fallen of ww2 must be honored and remembered. They gave the ultimate sacrifice, whatever country they fought for.

Dead driver Julian Patrick is still sitting in his seat in the M4 Sherman tank. Shot down by a Panther during the Battle of Cologne Cathedral. The only survivor was a badly wounded gunner. Cologne, Germany, 6 March 1945

US soldier and tank driver Julian Patrick of Kentucky, a member of the 3rd US Armored Division, killed in action inside his tank on March 6, 1945 during the very well-known tank duel at the Cathedral of Cologne. The inside of a M4 Sherman tank was famously dangerous. Quoting Henry J. Earl: “The hit was low on the side. The interior of the tank was lit by a ball of fire caused by the terrific friction of the penetration. A white hot eighteen-pound projectile entered the empty ammunition rack under the floor.

The earlier modes of the M-4 “Sherman” medium tank did not store ammunition under the turret floor. The steel walls of the compartment prevented the molten metal from striking the interior of the hulland ricocheting throughout the tank. This saved the crew.” Sadly, in this occasion, none steel wall protected nor saved this soldier. Pfc. Julian H. Patrick was born in Magoffin County, KY, on April 29, 1921.

He was the youngest of 4 brothers serving in WWII. The three other brothers survived the war. Julian was first buried in Belgium, his body returned in 1947 to the USA and interred in the family cemetery in Salyersville, KY.

Julian Patrick (26 October 1927 – 8 May 2009) was an American operatic baritone and voice teacher. Born in Mississippi, Patrick grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where he was a member of the Apollo Boys Choir. After graduating from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he began his professional career as a musical theatre performer in the 1950s; appearing in the original Broadway productions of The Golden Apple (1954), Bells Are Ringing (1956), Juno (1959), Once Upon a Mattress (1959), and Fiorello! (1959). He also studied singing privately in New York City with Cornelius L. Reid.

After the 1950s Patrick worked mainly as a performer in operas, making appearances at the Dallas Opera, the De Nederlandse Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Houston Grand Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin, the San Francisco Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, and the Welsh National Opera among other major opera houses. In 1968 he starred as Private Don Hanwell in the world premiere of Hugo Weisgall's Nine Rivers from Jordan at the New York City Opera.

He was particularly active with the Seattle Opera where he notably created the role of George Milton in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men in 1970. He also taught on the music faculty of the University of Washington for many years and sang Alberich in the Seattle Opera performances of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, being declared by the Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins as “the world’s greatest living ‘Alberich.’” He died at the age of 81 while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was survived by his life partner of 56 years, Donn Talenti.

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