U.S Army trucks hit near Remagen bridge. Soldiers of the First U.S.

U.S Army trucks hit near Remagen bridge. Soldiers of the First U.S. Army advancing to the Rhine River bridge at Remagen, Germany, pass wrecked and smoldering vehicles of their unit caught by a Nazi artillery barrage laid on the road loading to the span. Ninth Armored Division troops of the First Army seized the bridge intact March 7, 1945, in a surprise attack 10 minutes before the Nazis had scheduled it for destruction.