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Remagen bridge, the Ludendorff railway bridge which spanned the Rhine at Remagen near Bonn. On 7 March 1945, during the
battle for Germany, it was captured by an armoured patrol of
Hodges's First US Army, when the Germans failed to destroy it. This gave the Allies a great psychological, as well as military, advantage for it enabled more than 8,000 troops, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, to cross in under 24 hours. However, the Americans found it difficult to hold their bridgehead and the corps commander was dismissed for his timidity while trying to exploit it.
Hitler was furious at the bridge's capture and replaced
Rundstedt with
Kesselring. The German officer charged with destroying it was, along with four others, summarily shot and V-2 rockets (see
V-weapons) were even fired at it, the first and only time they were used tactically.
Model, Kesselring's immediate subordinate, tried, unsuccessfully, to dislodge the Allied bridgehead around it. After five divisions had crossed, the bridge collapsed on 17 March, killing 26, but by then engineers had built pontoon bridges.
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The bridge at Remagen.(Ludendorff Bridge)
Magazine article from: Engineer: The Professional Bulletin for Army Engineers; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...spanning the river. The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen was often overlooked due to its location...bridges still standing on 7 March 1945. Remagen is located between Cologne and Koblenz...Ludendorff Bridge stretched from the city of Remagen on the western bank to a 600-foot hill...
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4 QUESTIONS: Revisiting 'Remagen'; Ken Hechler talks about his book's journey into the big screen
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 5/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Ludendorff Bridge in the German town of Remagen, offering Allied troops their first toehold...account of the capture, "The Bridge at Remagen," became a best-selling book and was...Charleston, presents "The Bridge at Remagen" as part of its "Films from West Virginia...
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50 years ago this week, American soldiers captured bridge at Remagen.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/7/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...The place was the little German town of Remagen, where a thousand-foot trestle bridge...he told the Associated Press in Remagen on Tuesday. American and British armies...Armored Division reached a summit above Remagen. The Americans looked down and, to their...
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Hechler seeks Remagen veterans
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/28/2000; 415 words
; ...or near the famous railroad bridge at Remagen, Germany, in World War II are invited...Hechler, a combat historian at the time the Remagen bridge was captured, interviewed soldiers...conquest before writing "The Bridge at Remagen," a book which is still considered a...
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Hechler follows 'Remagen' with 'Hero of the Rhine'
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...best- selling book "The Bridge at Remagen" about the Army's unexpected capture...assault on the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, on May 7, 1945, and was the first officer across the Remagen bridge. Timmermann's story is indeed...
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Remagen Bridge: 9th Armored Division
Magazine article from: Army; 8/1/2005; ; 434 words
; Briefly Noted... Remagen Bridge: 9th Armored Division. Andrew...recounts the successful capture of the Remagen Bridge, the last intact bridge over...and terrible) movie, "The Bridge at Remagen," which follows the action up to the...
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THE MIRACLE AT REMAGEN
Magazine article from: Army Reserve Magazine; 1/1/2003; ; 367 words
; ...the capture of the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany. The 1st of the 310th Infantry...the history books as the "Miracle at Remagen." General Dwight D. Eisenhower has...agree that the capture of the bridge at Remagen helped to shorten the war.
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COALITION FORCES ENTRUST REMAGEN TO IRAQI ARMY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/18/2006; 604 words
; ...Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division handed over Forward Operating Base Remagen to the 4th Iraqi Army Division Wednesday. In the hand-over ceremony, FOB Remagen was renamed Saad Bin Abi Waqas, an Iraqi hero and commander-in-chief of...
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Source Wales assistance is paying dividends for Remagen.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/7/2001; 700+ words
; ...One of the firms using the programme to its advantage is Remagen, which uses advanced technology to make seat covers at its...address new customers.'' CAPTION(S): QUALITY CHECK: Remagen managing director Philip Dykins inspects a finished headrest
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Osprey Publishing.(The Scottish Jacobite Army 1945-46)(Rommel's Afrika Korps: Tobruk to El Alamein)(US Airborne Units in the Mediterranean Theater 1942-44)(Remagen 1945: Endgame Against the Third Reich)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 11/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...war. The history, makeup and engagements of these early forces would change the outcome of the war. Steven J. Zaloga's REMAGEN 1945: ENDGAME AGAINST THE THIRD REICH (1846030188, $18.95) tells of the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge, surveying...
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Remagen bridge
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Remagen bridge, the Ludendorff railway bridge which spanned the Rhine at Remagen near Bonn. On 7 March 1945, during the battle for Germany , it was captured by an armoured patrol of Hodges's First US Army, when the Germans failed to destroy...
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Remagen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Remagen , town (1994 pop. 15,971), Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany, on the Rhine River. It is a rail junction from which mineral water is shipped. U.S. troops used the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen when they first crossed (Mar., 1945) the Rhine in World War II.
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Rhine crossings
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...They stumbled across an intact bridge at Remagen five days later and their successful seizure...every effort was made to reinforce the Remagen bridgehead, the countryside east of the...for the crossings themselves, those at Remagen, Oppenheim, and by Twenty-First Army...
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Cortez, Stanley
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...the Night ) (Hoey) 1966 Blue (Narizzano): The Bridge at Remagen (Guillermin) 1969 Tell Me that You Love Me, Junie Moon...November 1961. Lightman, Herb A., on The Bridge at Remagen in American Cinematographer (Hollywood), November 1969...
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Germany, battle for
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...reaching effect, captured the Ludendorff railway bridge at Remagen . By 10 March, Montgomery's and Bradley's lines were on...Ruhr pocket Bradley had instantly grasped the opportunity the Remagen Bridge offered for an enlarged American role in the advance...
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