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Second to our purpose of sharing GodвЂ™s love to these sweet children was simply helping them to feel safe and to forget all that might be going on back home, even if it was just for a week. See our post from 2015 вЂ“ Faces That Will Melt Your Heart and Life Stories That Will Break It. I remember one of our earlier years of involvement in the childrensвЂ™ camp when we learned what many of these kids were going through. Although things have certainly reached a high level of severity in recent days, but Ukraine has been enduring much of this hardship for a long time. If youвЂ™ve followed our Journey, you know that our serving in Poland has included many people вЂ“ Holocaust Survivors from Isreal, Polish churches and teens, and running camps for Ukrainian children and teens. It does our breaking hearts good to see Americans and people all over the world posting blue and yellow flags and lifting up prayers for this country that has become so dear to us. By then the Allies had already built three pontoon bridges about 1,000 yards down river from the bridge.Suddenly, the whole world is watching and praying for Ukraine. T he bridge collapsed due to structural damage on 17 March, after six US divisions were in place in the bridgehead. Army to overrun the industrial areas of the Ruhr Valley.

All of this hastened the end of German resistance along the Rhine, forced many Germans to surrender, and opened the door for the U.S. This complicated the Wehrmacht's job of defense, for their soldiers were cut off from their meager supplies, partly surrounded, and exposed to aerial bombing. One effect of those troop movements was that the Americans were able, within two weeks, to establish other crossings by using their pontoon bridges along their front on the Rhine. Units of infantry, artillery, and armour, both US and German, scrambled along the Rhine Valley while both sides reacted to the capture of the bridge and its failure to be destroyed by German explosives experts. The battle included a huge, ongoing artillery duel, a desperate air battle between the American and German air forces, and the use of some V-2 rockets against the American bridgeheads. Army and the Wehrmacht continued for more than a week.

Once the bridge was captured, the troops of the Wehrmacht began strenuous efforts to destroy or damage it, or to slow the U.S.

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Army could cross it immediately with heavy tanks and artillery pieces and trucks full of military supplies. Since it was a railroad bridge, this bridge was also strong enough that the U.S. The capture of this bridge was an important event of World War II in Western Europe because this was the only significant bridge still standing over the Rhine from the West into the heartland of Nazi Germany. Army to establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine. Army during the Battle of Remagen of World War II. The Ludendorff Bridge was notable for its capture on 7вЂ“8 March 1945 by the U.S. The Ludendorff BridgeВ (known frequently by English speaking people during World War IIВ as the Bridge at Remagen) was a railroadВ bridge across the Rhine RiverВ in Germany, connecting the villages of RemagenВ and ErpelВ between two ridges of hills flanking the river.

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