Ludendorff Bridge
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/17815
- Note
- "The Ludendorff Bridge (sometimes referred to as the Bridge at Remagen) was in early March 1945 a critical remaining bridge across the river Rhine in Germany when it was captured during the Battle of Remagen by United States Army forces during the closing weeks of World War II. Built in World War I to help deliver reinforcements and supplies to the German troops on the Western Front, it connected Remagen on the west bank and the village of Erpel on the eastern side between two hills flanking the river.
Midway through Operation Lumberjack, on 7 March 1945, the troops of the 1st U.S. Army approached Remagen and were surprised to find that the bridge was still standing. Its capture, two weeks before Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery´s meticulously planned Operation Plunder, enabled the U.S. Army to establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine. After the U.S. forces captured the bridge, German forces tried to destroy it multiple times." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.02.2020) - Latitude
- 50.579166412354
- Longitude
- 7.2441668510437
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25 m Maßband der Wehrmacht aus dem Jahr 1941
Gehäuse mit Leder überzogen,...
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Image: Heimatmuseum und -Archiv Bad Bodendorf - CC BY-NC-SA -
Gruppenbild des Wachbataillon der Ludendorfberücke von Remagen
Das Bild wurde wenige Tage...
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Image: Heimatmuseum und -Archiv Bad Bodendorf - CC BY-NC-SA -
Foto einer entschärften amerikanischen 5-Zentnerbombe
1945 landete eine...
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Image: Heimatmuseum und -Archiv Bad Bodendorf - CC BY-NC-SA -
Einst Kriegsgegner, heute Freunde
Bericht über das Treffen der...
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Image: Heimatarchiv Bad Bodendorf - CC BY-NC-SA
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