Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the old Roman town of Remagen, about halfway between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt on the Rhine River, in 1945 was the 1,000-foot, double-track Ludendorff ...

Presentations were given to and by Robert Shelato, Rhine River Crossing veteran, who personally detailed the events of crossing to the crowd, and to Lt. Col. Julie Balten, commander 249th Engineer ...

While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat Annie” and sailed down the Rhine, in honor of the ...

Two weeks later, Napoleon battered the Austrians, forcing them to retreat back across the border. He then swooped down on Vienna once again, capturing the city on May 13.

Dignitaries and residents from Worms, Germany, joined 4th Infantry Division and German Soldiers to mark the 70th anniversary of the division's crossing of the Rhine River during World War II March 29.

The Rhine crossing would involve Twenty-Nine Divisions,a total of one million men.The objective was to cross into the North of the Rhur, the center for the German war economy and heavly garrisoned ...

My most vivid memory of WWII was crossing the Rhine at 2100hrs on 23rd March 1945, four days after my 19th birthday. We crossed the Rhine in amphibious vehicles called buffalos with were run by ...