Crossing the Rhine Photographs | World War II Database

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American troops posing atop one of two knocked-out StuG III Ausf G assault guns near Modrath, Germany, 1945; the vehicles were disabled by US 9th Air Force fighter-bombers	M1 mortar team on near the Rhine River, Germany, 1945

British convoy with CMP trucks passing the bombed out St. Laurentius church in Uedem, Germany, 2 Mar 1945. Note the long wheel-base CMP followed by a short wheel-base CMP.	Americans at the Remagen Bridge, Germany, 8-10 Mar 1945

Ludendorff Bridge shortly after the collapse, Remagen, Germany, circa 17 Mar 1945	Men of US 535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion checking their positions in Remagen, Germany, Mar 1945

Buffalo tracked landing vehicles of UK 4th Royal Tank Regiment being transported forward in preparation for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 21 Mar 1945	Bernard Montgomery, Arthur Coningham, and Miles Dempsey in conversation, Walbeck, Germany, 22 Mar 1945

1st Squad of A Company of US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion crossing the Rhine River in Germany by an US Navy landing craft, 23 Mar 1945	A truck crossing the Rhine River in Germany, 23 Mar 1945; this was the second bridge built by US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion

British Diamond T Model 980 tractor towing a trailer loaded with a Churchill tank during preparations for crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 23 Mar 1945	Men of B Company of US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion building the first bridge across the Rhine River, Germany, 23 Mar 1945

A British Bedford QL truck leaving a raft after crossing the Rhine River near Feldwick,North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 24 Mar 1945	A truck-mounted 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun of UK 15th (Scottish) Division crossing the Rhine River near Xanten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 24 Mar 1945

Aerial photograph of a damaged German town during Rhine River area fighting, 24 Mar 1945; taken by crew of B-24 Liberator bomber of 2nd Air Division, US 8th Air Force	British paratroopers operating an M22 Locust tank as they prepared to cross the Rhine as part of Operation Varsity, late Mar 1945; note Horsa troop glider

C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft releasing hundreds of paratroopers and their supplies over the Rees-Wesel region in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany during Operation Varsity, 24 Mar 1945	Dempsey crossing the Rhine River into Germany aboard a small boat, 24-25 Mar 1945

Duplex drive Sherman tanks crossing the Rhine River into Germany, 24 Mar 1945	George Patton preparing to urinate in the Rhine River, Germany, 24 Mar 1945