Photo of the day From the Stripes archives

December 13, 2009

 

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes

Köln, Germany, October, 1967: The famed Köln (Cologne) Cathedral is silhouetted at sunset across the Rhine River. The cathedral, which took more than 600 years to build, miraculously survived 70 hits in World War II bombing that devastated the city.