In March 1945 the Rhine River was the last great barrier to the heart of Germany. General George S. Patton of US 3rd Army and Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery were both desperate to cross the ...

A bridge, just more than 1,000-feet-long, was intact over the Rhine River. It shouldn’t have ... Along with speeches and dignitaries, World War II-era American amphibious boats traveled along ...

("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 ... of the Rhine River. This book is the ...

Jostling through crowds of Germans and tourists in the Rhine River village of Bacharach ... a bridge still standing at Remagen to bring World War II into Hitler's heartland.

In March of 1945, 600 tanks, planes and artillery loudly prepared to cross the Rhine River in Germany ... “Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II,” which runs through Aug. 25 ...

During World War II, Earl L ... Germans on the Rhine River, but the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen remained intact. A fierce battle for the bridge and the vital crossing ensued.

Bray joined the Parachute Regiment in 1944 at the age of 18 and saw action at the Rhine Crossing. He later served in Palestine and after leaving the Army returned to Mullion where he worked as a ...