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Remagen railroad bridge across the Rhine River just after the Span collapsed.
Remagen railroad bridge across the Rhine River just after the Span collapsed.
At 15:15 hours (3:15 P.M) March,1945, spilling several hundred engineers at work on the span into the stream. Most of the men were rescued by shore.
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 reunion at Remagen, Germany, did give an answer as to why the rail span eventually collapsed â 17 years ago today. It fell because of overuse, not because of attacks by the Luftwaffe, as the late Hermann Goering was so fond of claiming.
To recapitulate the combat situation on March 7, 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 reunion at Remagen, Germany, did give an answer as to why the rail span eventually collapsed â 17 years ago today. It fell because of overuse, not because of attacks by the Luftwaffe, as the late Hermann Goering was so fond of claiming.
To recapitulate the combat situation on March 7, 1945:
Remagen railroad bridge, collapsed, broken, Rhine river, water, 1945
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