Bloody Rhine River Crossing
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Here's a great article that is featured in this month's World War II Magazine (April 2005). It's a first hand account of a combat engineer on the day that he led an assault boat across the Rhine River and into the teeth of the German defenses at St. Goarshausen. It's called Red Ran the Rhine. Interview by Paul Trickett. Article by Oscar Friedensohn.

 

MY LINK WAS DEAD. DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO MY FILE, SO A BIG THANKS EB Thanks for supplying said story below! :armata_PDT_37:

Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"
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Bloody Rhine River Crossing - by Walt's Daughter - 03-06-2005, 03:38 PM
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