The crossing of the Rhine River by Allied forces in March 1945 served as a pivotal moment in World War II, marking the ...

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On March 30, 1945, the brigade crossed the Rhine River and two weeks later captured the German city of Nuremberg. "As you look at these colors, there's a legacy in this brigade," said Taylor.

At the same time as Patton’s troops were crossing the Rhine, Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group was launching its own invasion into the German heartland.

("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 to a close in Europe, the Allies, who had been ...

The advance quickened, crossing the Weser near to Hamelin (of Pied Piper fame) and then the Elbe to reach Wismar, on the Baltic, on 2 May. Here we met the Russians who had advanced from the East.

Joseph C. Kasprzak put aside the heads of lettuce and bushels of tomatoes at his family’s grocery store on the East Side when he received a draft notice summoning him ...

In March 1945, the division crossed the River Rhine at Remagen via the Ludendorff Bridge, where von Bretzel experienced what later became "The Ammo Truck Story." "It seems funny now," he said.

Crossing the Rhine, ... 150,000 Allied troops — including 45,000 Americans of the Army’s V Corps — enact a mass counterassault across the Rhine against “enemy” troops dug in on the ...

My father-in-law served in North Africa, Sicily, Southern Italy and was involved in the planning and execution of the Rhine Crossing. He died in 1996 aged 88.