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 ...
AFTER a reunion last week of the combat soldiers who were there on both sides of the lines, the question of why the Germans failed to blow the famed Ludendorff bridge still remains unsettled. But the ...
[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 ...
March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...
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 ...
German authorities are selling part of the destroyed Ludendorff Bridge, or "Bridge at Remagen", to the highest bidder. One of WWII's most important battles was the Battle of Remagen when US forces ...
Mobility across natural obstacles can save lives in war. The capture of the Ludendorff Bridge that spanned the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, infuriated Hitler, as it allowed Allied troops to drive ...
Seventy-five years ago this week, U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy corpsmen and surgeons were nearing the end of a living, 36-day nightmare named Iwo Jima that resulted in more than 26,000 American ...
BUNNELL — Edwin A. Thompson — “Tommy” to his friends — was 34, married and well established in a career when the U.S. Army called. America needed him for a “special service assignment” in the war ...
Soldiers of 1st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 181st Multifunctional Training Brigade, conducted the unit’s organizational week April 19-22, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The ...
March 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence ...