70 years ago on march 7, 1945, u. S. Army forces captured ludendorff bridge. Leading to the first allied bridgehead across the rhine river in germany. The bridge at remagen and is a twopart 1965 u. S. Army film telling the story of the battle. The big picture episodes include interviews with president eisenhower, general omar bradley, a german commander, and representative ken heckler, who witnessed the event as an army historian. I received the news we captured remagen bridge while i was sitting in my headquarters. At the time, the general was in my office and i passed the news on to him and we discussed the advantage of it. The first time he informed the message that i had received it, i told him to secure the bridge head, taking whatever troops across were necessary. So we could hold that bridge head for future operations. This bridge enabled us to get across the rhine without having to make us all later on. It really made a decision to cross on a wide front easier for eisenhower to
Calvert County State’s Attorney Robert Harvey announced that Kenneth David Bonolis, 58, of St. Leonard, was sentenced on January 25, 2022 for the crime of animal cruelty.