How One “Impossible” Bridge Let Patton’s Army Cross the Rhine in 36 Hours
Автор: From Foxhole to Fame
Загружено: 2025-11-14
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The morning of March seventh, nineteen forty-five, dawned gray and bitter along the Rhine. Mist clung to the riverbanks, rising from the cold, swollen water that had swallowed entire stretches of farmland in recent weeks. The air smelled of wet earth and steel, pierced by the distant echo of artillery from the shattered towns of western Germany. Somewhere upstream, a pair of American reconnaissance planes hummed across the sky, tracing invisible lines in the mist as if mapping a path into history itself.
On the western bank, General George S. Patton’s Third Army waited. Their Sherman tanks, still fresh from the Ardennes and the Siegfried Line, rumbled restlessly in the mud. The men of the Fourth Armored Division, a mixture of hardened veterans and recent draftees, huddled in small clusters, checking their gear, inspecting weapons, and wondering aloud whether the river — wide, treacherous, and merciless — could ever be crossed in time to maintain the momentum Patton demanded.
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