First Battle and Siege of Bonn (World War III-1962)

The Battle
while Soviet troops were mere miles away from the city NATO forces prepared for the onslaught by setting up roadblocks and barricades and blockades to slow down the soviet advance. Soviet forces arrived at the outskirts of the city on Nov 25 1962. NATO snipers picked off soviet squads while making their advance.but that did not slow down the advance enough to make a difference because the Soviets where trying to encircle the city. On Nov 27 1962 heavy house to house fighting began in the Beule neighborhood of Bonn causing heavy causalities on both sides but slowed down the Soviet advance. While that was happening Soviet T-62 tanks were destroyed by mines placed before the battle causing more casualties. This was the plan of NATO forces because during this NATO engineers were rigging the bridges across the Rhine with explosives to halt the Soviet advance. On Nov 28 1962 NATO forces retreted over the Rhine river and blew up the Bridges over the river halting the soviet advance.