George E. Learned served in the 89th Cav Rcn Sq (Mecz) of the 9th Armd Div as a first lieutenant at the time of the capture of the Remagen bridge. He revisited the town for the first time since 1945 ...

REMAGEN, Germany (Stars and Stripes) — One of the first Americans to rush over and several of the last Germans to retreat across the famed Remagen bridge in 1945 were reunited amid jokes, laughter and ...

Seventy-five years ago this week, U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy corpsmen and surgeons were nearing the end of a living, 36-day nightmare named Iwo Jima that resulted in more than 26,000 American ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Ludendorff bridge at Remagen, shortly after it was captured by 9th Armored Division soldiers under the leadership of 2nd Lt.

Army medic Gene Day found himself crossing a bridge deep into the heartland of Germany in early March 1945, unaware which river he was crossing in the nighttime darkness. It was only after he got to ...

Soldiers of 1st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 181st Multifunctional Training Brigade, conducted the unit’s organizational week April 19-22, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The ...

Wolf Koch will present “Capturing The Remagen Bridge 70 Years Ago” at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8, at the German American Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St., Davenport. “The Miracle of Remagen” happened when ...

If there is a person who embodies the First Army motto of “People, Mission, History,” it’s 100-year-old Walter Petroske of Poplar Grove, Illinois. In December of 1944, at the age of 23, he served ...