Other news of military maps: ¶ Rhine-crossing paratroopers carried maps that glow in the dark. Amphibious troops as far apart as the Rhine and Okinawa had maps showing high and low water areas ...

platoon and company competitions to honor the brigade's crossing of the Rhine River during World War II. "Seventy-one years ago today this brigade crossed the Rhine River from France into Germany ...

("Crossing the Rhine: Breaking into Nazi Germany 1944 and 1945" by Lloyd Clark, Atlantic Monthly Press, 415 pages, $25 ). As World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, the Allies, who had been ...

A highlight of the event was the crossing of the Rhine by a DUKW amphibious transport vehicle, symbolizing the daring river operations that enabled U.S. forces to advance deeper into enemy territory.