The Liberator by Alex Kershaw

Author:Alex Kershaw [Kershaw, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-88801-3
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-29T13:00:00+00:00

REMAGEN, GERMANY, MARCH 7, 1945

IT WAS AROUND 4 P.M. when Lieutenant Karl Timmerman and men from the 27th Armored Infantry of the 9th Division reached the approaches to the Ludendorff railway bridge near Remagen, fifty miles east of the French border near Bonn. To their surprise, the Americans saw that the bridge was still standing. Since September 1944, some seven months before, the Allies had been fighting to reach and then cross the river only to be repelled in Holland and stalled all along Germany’s borders. Every other bridge across the Rhine had been destroyed. Seizing the Ludendorff intact would constitute one of the great achievements of the war. But surely the Germans would blow it up before the Allies could cross?

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