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 ...

After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It is a reunion 80 years in the making. During World War II, Earl L. McCorkle from Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was fighting the Germans while trying to cross the Rhine River. But it ...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone. In 1918, Finland signed a peace treaty with Germany shortly after declaring independence from Russia. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ...

In the wirephoto which appeared on the front page of almost every U.S. newspaper, the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen did not look like a thing of beauty. Its squat towers, like two massive beer mugs, ...

Sgt. Calvin Thornberry and his 78th Infantry Division, nicknamed "Lightning," crossed the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen during the invasion of Germany in World War II. Deploying aircraft ...

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