ALLIES SEIZE LUDENDORFF BRIDGE AT REMAGEN, CROSS RHINE
Remagen, Germany • March 7, 1945 By March 1945 the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) was reeling from horrendous personnel and equipment losses incurred during the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945) in the Ardennes Forest, which lay mostly in Belgium and Luxembourg. The military momentum now clearly favored the Western Allies as…