Over ten days in the spring of 1945, Army Engineers expedited the invasion of Germany by daringly capturing a bridge across the Rhine. It had been nine months since D-Day, and Allied forces had just crossed the German border. The last natural barrier to driving deeper into Germany was the Rhine. The Allies had systematically bombed bridges up and down the river for months, so the discovery of the intact WWI-era Ludendorff Bridge at the town of Remagen was a big surprise. After realizing retreati