battle, interwar and Second World War
Battle of Paderborn
Battle of Paderborn was a battle fought in 1945 at Paderborn, in what is now Germany. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Paderborn. The recorded result: American victory. Recorded strength: 3 Combat Commands against 60 tanks.
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Record
| Date | 1945 (year precision) | |
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| Place | Paderborn, Germany 51.717N, 8.767E | |
| Kind | Battle, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | 3 Combat Commands | 60 tanks |
| Casualties and losses | 17 M4 tanks destroyed; 1 M-36 destroyed; 17 half-tracks destroyed | 3 Tiger II tanks destroyed |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Warburg 1760, 35 km SE
- Battle of Corbach 1760, 49 km S
- Battle of Vlotho 1638, 50 km N
- Battle of Villinghausen 1761, 54 km W
- Battle of Wilhelmsthal 1762, 55 km SE
Elsewhere in 1945
- atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
- Battle of Berlin Germany
- Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
- Battle of Okinawa Japan
- Bombing of Dresden Germany
Battle of Paderborn is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 668 in present-day Germany.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q60524424, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Paderborn, revision 1371456176, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.