Army medic Gene Day found himself crossing a bridge deep into the heartland of Germany in early March 1945, unaware which river he was crossing in the nighttime darkness. It was only after he got to ...
George E. Learned served in the 89th Cav Rcn Sq (Mecz) of the 9th Armd Div as a first lieutenant at the time of the capture of the Remagen bridge. He revisited the town for the first time since 1945 ...
REMAGEN, Germany (Stars and Stripes) — One of the first Americans to rush over and several of the last Germans to retreat across the famed Remagen bridge in 1945 were reunited amid jokes, laughter and ...
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When Two Greatest Allied Generals Collided in WWII
In this episode we stand on the banks of the Rhine at Oppenheim, where in March 1945 General George Patton and his Third Army ...
Wolf Koch will present “Capturing The Remagen Bridge 70 Years Ago” at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the German American Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St., Davenport. “The Miracle of Remagen” happened when ...
Foreword by James H. Madison -- Introduction -- PART I. THE WAR : A CHRONOLOGICAL STORY. Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River -- Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment -- Continued ...
This will be the last sad chapter of an episode in my life that began on the west bank of the Rhine River in 1945, as German artillery shells plopped around us. I have received word from Stanley Cohn ...
In the last year of World War II, in order to slow the Allies’ advance into the German heartland, the Nazis blew up bridges ...
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