New on our website From D-Day to VE-Day the famous bridge of Remagen in Germany with pivtures and information
Yes- thank you for the link, Marc. The Bridge at Remagen is one of the main WWII European battlesites still on my 'to be visited' list.....
go back in the archiv's and find my interview with US 8th AF 352nd fg ace Don Bryan. Don tagged an Ar 234 that had bombed the bridge, actually missed it's approach and flew under the bridge and Don forced his Stang into some incredible G forces to fly and up and catch the jet ......
Marc you may have to spend some digging for it, as I am not sure just where it is ........ actually did a 2 + hour interview with him over the phone, another super guy
Ever willing to oblige.... http://www.ww2forums.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=000489#000000
When you do Martin, search out the local history on the German POW camp located in the area in 45. Lots of bad feeling came out of that camp, and locals, well one in bar I visisted when based in BAOR, was keen to tell us visiting Brits how much he despised gthe allies still becuase of it...
Were there any ? I know the scene in the movie is dramatic, but Hechler's book states that Timmerman and his men weren't actually on the bridge - they were relieved at the thought that 'they wouldn't have to take that damned bridge' after the explosions....
According to my source there were 13 men on the bridge when it was blown. There were 12 riflemen and a combat photographer. My source is the photographer, who I happened to interview a few years ago. Curiously enough this man survived the war and remained in the US Army, ending up a colonel in charge of the US Army Imagry Archive. He retired sometime during the Vietnam Conflict era. He had a singular war experience. He went in on the first wave at Normandy (D-Day), was the photographer who recorded the remains of the Massacre st Malmedy, and ended up attaching himself to the Soviet Army after being relased by the Germans who had captured him in the last weeks of the war.
