It was called Operation Lumberjack. The World War II plan was to get the U.S. Army across the Rhine River, capture Cologne, secure the Koblenz sector and push east. Cologne fell on March 5, 1945.
After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...
[Editor's note: Ryan Roberts is a journalism student at Ansbach High School.] ANSBACH, Germany (March 18, 2015) -- Ansbach High School students of the 9th JROTC Battalion went to the German town of ...
The March 7, 1945, seizure the Rhine River's Remagen Bridge by a U.S. Army task force is an outstanding example of individual and organizational initiative and carefully assessed aggressiveness. A ...
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The bridge in Remagen, site of a famous American military exploit in World War II, is taking part in an annual event in which more than 4,000 museums and cultural attractions ...
Retired trucker Dan Yolo, 91, was standing on the strategic Rhine River span when it crumpled into the Rhine in 1945. Recall ever hearing of the Ludendorff Bridge in Germany? Little remains of the ...
When American GIs captured the bridge at Remagen 50 years ago tomorrow to allow the first Rhine River crossing into the Nazi heartland, the old railroad span became an instant symbol of inevitable ...
Forty years ago I borrowed something and never returned it. I`ve always felt terrible about it. It was not just any day in my life. I was standing on the west bank of the Rhine River looking out at ...
Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach, I climb to the sun deck of the ferry and grab a chair. With the last passenger barely aboard, the gangplank is ...
The March 7, 1945, seizure the Rhine River's Remagen Bridge by a U.S. Army task force is an outstanding example of individual and organizational initiative and carefully assessed aggressiveness. A ...
The March 7, 1945, seizure the Rhine River’s Remagen Bridge by a U.S. Army task force is an outstanding example of individual and organizational initiative and carefully assessed aggressiveness. A ...
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