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Taken standing on a part of the bridge looking through the two towers & toward the river. The towers on the opposite back can just be discerned through the mist.
Below is a very brief summary of the battle.
The battle of Remagen bridge stands as one of the most strategically important of World War Two. By March 1945 the bridge was the last one intact over the river Rhine. The Germany army High Command wanted to destroy it to prevent the allied army ferrying men & materiel over it. The allies wanted to destroy it to prevent the German Army from withdrawing approximately 50,000 soldiers of the German 15th army across the bridge. The German General ordered with destroying the bridge wanted to hold it open as long as possible to allow the trapped soldiers to escape.
When the US 9th Armoured division reached the river on March 7th 1945 its Commanders realised how intact the bridge was they issued orders to capture the bridge.
The Germans had rigged the bridge for detonation & indeed the Americans were waiting for it to blow completely as the Germans had already detonated the 1st sets of explosives around the reaches & iron works of the structure.
Around two o clock in the afternoon Alpha Company under commander Karl Timmermann began their assault on the bridge & as they made their way across they began to dismantle the explosives. As they did so the Germans opened fire from the towers on the opposite bank & the attack slowed during which a secondary set of explosions rocked the bridge but when the smoke cleared the bridge still stood.
In Timmermanns company was Italio - American Sergeant De Lisio who realised the predicament they were in & charged the machine gun nest & the first tower. The German officer there surrendered & the US army had captured the bridge.
Sergeant De Lisio became the first allied soldier to cross the Rhine & closely following Karl Timmerman became the first Officer to do so.
Ten days after its capture the heavily damaged bridge collapsed into the river.
Five German Officers were executed for failing to destroy the bridge.
The capture of the bridge shortened the war by at least 6 months.
After the war Karl Timmermann rejoined the US army & fought in Korea. He died of cancer in 1951 aged 31.
A new-ish pedestrian bridge over the north channel of the River Lee in Cork (Corcaigh). It reminded me of this one in Cambridge
the sawmill brig, built around 1763- or ewes bridge. a two arched bridge that spans the small river ewes, or the ewes water. which is in drought mode at the moment. it used to be one of the main routes into the town many years ago, before the highmill brig was built in 1821. with the kilngreen on the right, and the castleholm on the left. langholm, dumfriesshire, scotland. view large
Archbishop Sentamu was walking around his diocese, and when he was passing through Stamford Bridge he came to see the Battle of Stamford Bridge Tapestry
The Trough of Bowland is a great ride on a mainly single track road with some interesting things to lookout. One being Dunlop Bridge which is the nearest village to the centre of the British Isles (according to Ordnance Survey) and the other being the Jubilee Tower. A viewing Tower Commissioned by a wealthy Liverpool Shipbuilder, James Harrison, for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The views are amazing even on a hazy day like this one I could still see Blackpool Tower and Morecambe bay spread in front of me.
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890, and spans a total length of 2,528.7 metres (8,296 ft). It is often called the Forth Rail Bridge or Forth Railway Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, although it has been called the "Forth Bridge" since its construction, and was for over seventy years the sole claimant to this name.
The bridge connects Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh, with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry; it acts as a major artery connecting the north-east and south-east of the country. Described by the Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland as "the one immediately and internationally recognised Scottish landmark", it is a Category A listed building and was nominated by the British government in May 2011 for addition to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland.
Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world. It still has the world's second-longest single span. The bridge and its associated railway infrastructure is owned by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited.
Smithland Bridge (Livingston County, Kentucky)
Built 1931; rehabilitated 1954
Through truss bridge over Cumberland River on US 60 at Smithland.
One of the highlights of the 2010 Ingenuity Fest was this waterfall off the Detroit-Superior bridge into the Cuyahoga River.
Brevik Bridge (in Norwegian Breviksbrua) is a bridge over the mouth of the Frierfjord which connects the municipalities of Bamble and Porsgrunn in Telemark county. On the west side, in Bamble, lies Stathelle, while on the east side lies Brevik in Porsgrunn.
The bridge was opened in 1962, and was a part of E18 until 1996 (now part of Riksvei 354), when the E18 was rerouted via a new bridge, the Grenland Bridge (in Norwegian Grenlandsbrua) which lies further up the fjord.
(Photo's of that can be seen here.)
Made of steel and concrete.
Total length 677m.
Main span 272.
Deck width 10.3m
Clearance 45m
Pedestrian walkway at the new La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science at La Trobe University in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
Brigid crossing the Stillwater Lift Bridge during her participation in the Ragnar Relay Great River.